[Koko Ed]

Building a group of similar robots together seems more pragmatic than unethical to me. In particular inner city and close by rural teams that have limited resources of mentors students and facilities that could combine with other teams to make up for these lack of resources and build something that could actually be useful at competition instead of building a half functioning robot that spend most of it's time broken in the pits so they can pack up and leave on Saturday afternoon after alliance selection.
These teams should be encouraged to work together so they can get more out of the completion than just that. Otherwise why bother showing up if all your doing is coming to the event to be dismissed as a viable option? That's not fair to them and it's not fair to the other teams at the competition.