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Originally Posted by nixiebunny
Based on the responses here, it sounds like it's more sporting to do the harvesting at home. We'll do that for our next regional.
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Glad you made the right call.
Everyone else,
Forgetting the Robot and Tournament rules for a moment, keep this in mind:
Judges, volunteers and other persons involved in every regional read these threads. Key staff are asked to keep an eye open for actions and behaviour to share with the judges. This is usually in reference to great things and acts of kindness by a team to help another.
Bringing the entire robot and keeping it within a mile so you can use parts off of it, or practice at the hotel falls into the other category of something a volunteer would report to judges. In deliberations, such a piece of information can act as the losing coin toss that will swing an award to a teams that merely brought their allowed withholding rather than their whole practice robot. Such an award could be one that would qualify a team to go to St. Louis.