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Originally Posted by Karthik
I'm very confused here. On one hand we have the game manual saying that we're allowed to perform minor disassmembly to fit into the Transportation Configuration, while on the other hand the Chief Robot Inspector for FIRST is saying that it's illegal. Normally I'd just go with the manual, but as I've been told many times on this forum the Lead Robot Inspector is the final authority at events. If there's been a rule change from what's written in the manual to disallow minor disassembly I'd like to know as soon as possible and I also would like to know why this hasn't been addressed in a Team Update.
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I have a really hard time believing that minor disassembly/assembly when on the field will be made illegal. My team, and many others (likely including yours) plan to take advantage of this unique rule this year, and have spent money/time designing and building robots that take require assembly on the field. I wouldn't say our whole strategy revolves on being able to manually install a mechanism that's considerably larger than the transport configuration, but we've spent over half our robot budget/time working on it.
We have also come in a little bit underweight, so we do plan on removable bumpers this year that are bungeed to the elevator tower when not in use, and dropped into place when the robot's on the field.