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Re: Were to store practice bot at regional?

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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber View Post
Sure, can I just say that the GDC needs to pull it's collective head out of a certain part of their anatomy? That's possibly the second stupidest ruling I've seen recently from them (the dumbest being batteries counting against withholding which they did resolve).

By this logic any robot built for demo purposes that a host team may want to have outside to interact with students would count against their weight. What if for part of my RCA I want to bring my FTC team's robot for display in my pit?
This is kind of an aside, but I just want to emphasize how asinine this ruling is. According to the GDC, even if a robot does not meet the Manual definition of "robot" (specifically, designed to play Aerial Assist), you can't bring it. Numerous events have had teams bring old robots for the purposes of display, interacting with the public, whatever. A strict interpretation of this rule restricts even *non-FRC robots* from entering events. If this was enforced do they have any idea how much impact this would have on events? On the ability of the regional and teams to interact with the public?

I know at the Boston Regional last year, 125's old robots were on display and operating around the perimeter of the dome. At every WPI regional there are various WPI robots on display at the venue entrance. So many events have FTC demonstrations that are now illegal to do if one of those FTC robots is affiliated with an FRC team. This is incredibly shortsighted.
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