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Originally posted by Elgin Clock
That would be like FIRST saying, "You can keep your robot and bring it with you to the first competition; but oh by the way, don't modify anything on it after 2-20-03, a whole month before you first competition, ok?
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I know you're just trying to be smart, but yeah that's exactly what I mean. I believe they've done that in the past with spares, saying that you don't have to ship them with your robot but they had to be manufactured during the build period.
According to the Jive forums, this year you're allowed to build spares at any time as long as they're identical. Do you think they're going to check every spare part you bring into the arena to make sure it's not an improved version? No. They are trusting each team to follow the rules. They have to. If there was a team who didn't care about the rules there are literally dozens of ways to cheat in this competition. For example, they weigh you in at the beginning of the event and (usually) that's it, right? There's nothing (other than your conscience) stopping you from adding more weight to the robot after you weigh in. Another example: a lot of teams are sponsored by colleges. It would be easy for a college student to pass him/herself off as a high school student in order to operate the robot. As far as I know they don't check IDs.
Anyway my point is that no, I don't find it surprising at all that they might allow you to keep your controls without allowing you to change them.