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Originally Posted by rich2202
Due to budget constraints, at a Regional, a Turkish rookie team made motor controllers from custom circuits. From a Safety stand point, that was fine, but I don't think the team should be allowed to advance. Now, if they get other teams to give them some motor controllers and they pass compliance inspection prior to Alliance Selection, then that is fine.
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I'm almost certain that I know exactly what this is referencing, and there were people from several teams in their pit all day working on making the robot compliant. Changes including redoing a LOT of the electrical system and getting some appendages inside of the perimeter. As far as I could tell, the team wound up playing their matches without full functionality, mostly driving around. So they played with limited, legal functionality and were not using their illegal components, which they worked on fixing.
This seems like a good compromise to me, but would possibly be difficult to enforce if more teams started doing something similar.