
25-03-2013, 17:02
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Re: Modifying robot at competition?
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Originally Posted by buchanan
Maybe I'm just "borrowing trouble", but this looks to me like a loophole through which a team could bring two alternative mechanisms to the competition, present only one for initial inspection, then swap in the other if they decided the first wasn't as effective as they'd thought, effectively giving two shots at picking the best design.
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I don't see why this is a bad thing? The opportunity cost is if they are at weight with one mechanism, the decision to switch to another mechanism is permanent (for that regional). In terms of "fairness", it's not functionally any different from building two designs and deciding which to use at home.
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