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Originally Posted by Brandon Holley
My thoughts on looser rules at offseasons: Assuming its not giving you an extreme competitive advantage, I see no problem with it. We ran with a CIM instead of 775s at IRI this year because we had so many issues with those motors. It provided no competitive advantage (ie: offered no different functionality than our original design), our elevator just went up and down consistently and provided us with some peace of mind knowing that issue was not going to flare up at an inopportune time.
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At a small off-season event like our own CAGE Match I would agree with you and would have no problem with what you did but to do this at IRI is wrong.
Using a better more capable motor does give you an unfair advantage over teams that follow the rules. Something small like a repair that puts you a little overweight or maybe an incorrect wire is one thing but I think this is way over the top of acceptable behavior.