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Originally Posted by JamesCH95
I'll give you a hypothetical with some hyperbole.
Team A and Team B build the same robot. Both robots have a critical flaw in them that breaks in their first match on Friday.
Team A is from a city 500 miles away and all of their people are at the event, so they have to build a replacement in the pits with material and spare parts they brought before pits close. They miss all of their matches that day fixing their robot.
Team B's workspace is 3 miles from the venue, so they drive to their shop, revise their CAD model, press go on their cnc machine, and have a spare part in 30 minutes and are able to attend all of their matches that day.
Team B had the coincidental advantage that their build shop was right next to the venue. This is not fair to Team A.
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That makes sense. In fact. it's in the rules that you have to do all fabrication in the pits or machine shop during competition, and I'm not debating that. Just the wording of the rule is:
At an Event, Teams may have access to a static set of FABRICATED ITEMS that shall not exceed 45 lbs.
So, being 2-3 miles from the venue means I have access to a static set of Fabricated items that exceeds probably 600lbs. Can we define "having access" to mean "in the venue and the surround parking lot"? Otherwise our team, several other teams, and all teams hosting district events are unintentionally breaking this rule.