Andrew, the differences aren't unsafe. We know enough about we're doing to make the distinction between what is somewhat trivial in the rules and what is necessary in a high powered electrical distribution system. For example, last year we ran two window motors off of one victor as we were short on speed controllers.
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Originally Posted by Chris is me
While I don't think events should be incredibly stringent on the rules, I'm surprised that you think an event attempting to prevent teams from cheating is so offensive that you'd never return again.
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The California offseason events are generally low attended, and generally they aren't very competitive. So we make an effort to bring multiple robots to help increase the team count, increase the competitiveness of the event, and allow other teams/prerookies to use them. We gave our 3rd to a nonfunctional team at an event last year. If they make this more difficult to do, we'll just go to different events as what we're doing is far from cheating. Every one we've been too has been from from this though, they've all been great and it's never been an issue.
It's also a HUGE hassle getting and keeping three robots running, during the fall season, with 8 students or so at the event. We really do it more as a service to others than ourselves.