This is the first year that we have a practice bot to bring to an off season competition. If we do, it would be to allow a pre rookie teams to have an experience driving. The practice bot has some short cuts and is not at the same level as the competition bot anyway. Having said that it would be embarrassing to have a prerookie team beat us with the lesser bot,
In terms of breakage. Short of intentional damage, we would accept the risks of putting the robot on the field includes the possibility of damage. Small risk really. The electronics are hard to break. The mechanical is very fixable. Nothing we have not made before.