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Re: 2013 Pine Tree Regional

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Originally Posted by bduddy View Post
Maybe I'm "lawyering" this rule a bit too much, but IMO it doesn't say that they can only have one compressor, just that only one compressor may supply air.
One and only one may supply air. That one may be located either on-board or off-board. If they had removed the on-board compressor from the system somehow, then I think they would have been perfectly fine (provided that R86 was met). If they did not, then there exists the possibility that it could turn on during the match, thus supplying air, thus having two compressors supplying air to the same system during the same match, though at two different times, thus potentially creating a rather nasty rules debate if the team gets called on violating a robot rule (and thus not passing inspection, see T06 for the aftermath).
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