My two favorite quotes from the Q/A Response:
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Elements and assemblies built at the event by one team to give to another do not satisfy R1 above
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you may certainly assist another team in building new parts for their ROBOT at the event, and we encourage that
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...what?
Two new potential strategies:
1. Work "with" the 5 worst teams at an event on 5 sets of RC grabbers at the beginning of the week to guarantee one of the 5 is available as a second pick. Take back the parts from the other 4 teams before elims (or don't work "with" them to install key component until after alliance selection).
2. Change our RC grabber from a 2 day build to a 2 hour build. Still pull our 3rd robot off the field for Quarters and Semis, and hopefully we can build an RC grabber "with" them in 2 hours. We will now only picked the most competent, experienced team that will guarantee inspectors know we were helping them, not the other way around. Heaven forbid we pick a rookie team that will need more help than is allowed within the rules!!
Kris said it well. Don't hate the player, hate the game. And boy do I hate this game!
-Mike