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Originally Posted by DMike
1) Practice robots are clearly an enormous advatage to teams that have the resources to complete them. Using an exact replica to practice with and revise, is no different than working on the one in the bag. Put a non-working bot in the bag, refine parts on your "practice bot" install them on Thursday. Teams could continue to use their "practice bot" for their intended purpose, PRACTICE. Driver traing, game strategy would remain a huge benifit alone.
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To this point.
So is attending more than one event. How would you address teams that build a Betabot for practice and attend only 1 event.
These Betabots aren't necessarily fully compliant and up to date with this years rules. Most are modified versions of prior year machines. The ones that are identical twins to the bagged machine are in the very very low miinority.
Remember, there is a very large contingent of teams that attend only 1 event.
Would you restrict teams to the number of events they can attend?
It's interesting once you bring up questions about how things are done that, after researching it a bit you find out that pretty much
everything is a compromise.
This applies to many things outside FIRST too.