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Re: Modifying robot at competition?
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Originally Posted by DanCreed3692
...indicating the intention to not allow teams to fabricate new mechansisms out of the blue to add whole new funcationality just to defeat other teams with a different design that is difficult to defend with the robot you brought to the arena...
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Sometimes rookie teams show up with a box full of parts and no bumpers to regionals...if rules were intended to keep them from adding functionality, they wouldn't be able to compete if they showed up in that scenario.
As JEE7S pointed out, we've done this at two regionals now, making it to finals in week one and winning in week two. We got help from some of the most established and well-respected teams in our part of the country to mod our defensive robot, and our kids and mentors both learned so much in such a short period of time from these interactions. If rules were intended to prevent these interactions from happening, wouldn't those rules violate several of the FIRST core values?
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2014 Texas Robot Roundup Winners (with 624, 118 & Pearland Robotics Pre-Rookie Team)
2014 Texas Robotics Invitational Finalists (with 148, 3735 & 3999)
2014 Dallas Regional Quarterfinalists (with 2587 & 5057)
2014 Alamo Regional Finalists (With 2468 & 148)
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