[angusg]

As you can probably tell, we had a lot of cheesecake debate in 4613 during the championships!

I see both sides of the debate. If it is legal and helps teams to win, they have a responsibility to use it, within the bounds of GP.

Also if teams learn from the experience of being cheesecaked, as it seems many did, then that's great too.

But in my view (clearly not that of all my team-mates, which is a fine thing), it becomes an issue when teams are selected as cheesecakeable alliance partners above great teams who have played well through the qualifiers. This takes opportunities to play in finals away from teams who have genuinely done their best to build a robot to play the game, and I don't think is "right". Like I say - this argument is against the rules allowing this process, NOT against those who used it to their advantage this year. 1114/148 did what they needed to to win, and good on them.

It was also impressive to see such things built in 3 days, and we were very interested in how they went if/when they made it to the field. Though I think allowing what appeared to be a weapon (albeit non-lethal) on the FRC field is a dangerous precedent to set.