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Originally Posted by fox46
You are correct- However, I do remember a number of years back being very upset by a team that had built a clone robot after Stop Build day. They brought the clone with them as a giant replacement part! The inspectors had reportedly scrutinized each one and had determined that they were identical. The team used them in a tag-team setup when their shipped robot broke, the clone was brought in to take its place. I think they swapped the control system though.
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fox,
I have not heard of this scenario but there is no way that a competition team (Head Ref, FTA, LRI) would allow them to tag team two robots. Most regionals would/should not even allow the second clone into the building. This competition is about one and only one robot built during the current build season. While you can build a second robot and use it for spares, (lot's of teams do this) you can't bring a
complete second robot to compete.