[Billfred]

I like this change, especially as a rookie team but also in the rip-out-the-cRIO era. This ensures teams have a robot to show more or less year-round when it's needed. (I recall a time that Dean came to South Carolina for a fundraising dinner years ago. He spoke with teams in the afternoon probably a week after ship day. He asked "Where are the robots?!" and I replied "We shipped 'em all!")

Will some folks stretch it? Probably. Could they stretch it without this rule? Certainly.

But if an event is big enough to break the robot out of the bag, hopefully teams will be recording and photographing anyway. It's hard to say "Redateam totally had driver practice!" when the video from the school board meeting shows them teaching the superintendent how to drive it.