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Originally Posted by JVN
In the grand scheme of "ways teams can knowingly cheat" designing a robot which goes outside the 54" cylinder isn't even in the top 5. This rule, like many others, will primarily be enforced by the honor system.
148 will (of course) design our robot so that it doesn't violate the rule. That goes without saying for us.
-John
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Originally Posted by Hanlon's Razor
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
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Sad but true, there are plenty of teams that just don't read the rules all that well. I would be surprised if we didn't see at least one 28"x38" robot come March.
Rules like this put the impetus on the volunteers at the event to adequately enforce the rules that teams neglected to read. Based on other comments, it sounds like FIRST has made steps in that direction in subsequent years so hopefully it is a non-issue for teams that comply with the rules. And let's be frank, if you are paying $6,000 to compete you better have a few spare hours to actually read the rule book.