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Re: Practice Robots
Of course, there's always the problem of how to actually enforce these rules. With the current rules. there's a lockup form that you sign, with attestation from an adult mentor/teacher/whatever that you've complied with the rules (which is fairly easy to verify - is the serial number of the tag the same as what the mentor said it was?). Mentors can't attend to the robot 24/7, so this is a good way to make sure that rules have been complied with. In these proposed changes, how do you ensure that compliance?
Admittedly, there could be some less honest teams that completely ignore the current rules and bag the day before competition and falsify records. However that goes against Gracious Professionalism and the entire ethos of FIRST (and should be fairly obvious that they had an additional 1-6 weeks of time with their robots)
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