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Re: 2012 New York City Regional

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And to come to think of it, if you wanted to run a legal off-board compressor at a higher flow rate or pressure, the rules don't actually prohibit it............
Again I believe the rules do prohibit it.

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All I'm saying is that the rules can't reasonably be enforced against robots that are neither playing nor being inspected......
As long as we agree while rules can't be enforced, they can't be broken. It's a fine line....

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After all, if you really wanted to, you could swap out spare tanks already pre-charged with the requisite quantity of pressurized air (from the KOP compressor) and overcome the delay. (If they're true spares, they don't violate the module rule.......................

...........Just like Tom said, I've got no special love for cheating. Quite the opposite, in fact, though I absolutely like creative solutions that go right to the edge of what's legal.
Swapping pre-charged tanks.....now that's a creative, and probably legal solution.....