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Originally Posted by efoote868

I'd like to expand the example to future years too, since it seems we're debating FRC game policy.


Continuing the hypothetical, a top seeding team is able to build two separate robots that perfectly compliment each other for a particular game. They're able to engineer their 2nd robot so that it weighs under the withholding allowance, and that assembly with COTS components is very quick (such as, install robot controller here, speed controllers here, and these motors here, here and here and with this software your new robot is ready to go).

After qualification, they gift their 2nd robot to their 3rd alliance member, so that the 3rd alliance member competes in eliminations with a completely different robot than they did in qualifications. Does this follow the spirit of FRC?

I am pretty sure everyone would say no to that instance. But I think everyone is in agreement that completely altering a robot in elims to fit a strategy is bad; but in the same breathe, adding to a robot to increase its worth and capabilities in an elimination, or maybe even qualification, alliance is something FIRST has always been ok with, as long as the team getting the upgrades believe in them.