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Originally Posted by lcoreyl
No. It goes back to the rule that lead to the thread where the cheesecake term came from, which was then reversed because FIRST was made aware of how it disallowed so many things that are good for FIRST.
At this point I've read this and the 900 champs thread, and all I've seen is this:
Team Cheesecake: "as a recipient of cheesecake I can tell you this was extremely inspirational for our team. Our kids loved being a part of this alliance"
Team lactose/gluten/fat free cake: "This made me feel icky regardless of the fact the team it happened to didn't feel icky. This wasn't the intent of FIRST. Also the other teams that could do things and didn't get drafted felt icky. This should be outlawed!"
Unless someone has a better argument than how seeing this makes you "feel", I think the evidence is pretty overwhelming that only good came of this.
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Actually, I think people's interpretations of the Q&A went far beyond the intention. They might add a revised version of the rule with a blue box to state that an assembled gearbox or a wheel with holes in it from riveted tread is perfectly acceptable. The wording was off, but the intent was there.
Right now, it is legal to in effect bag a second robot and throw it on the field. Given how long manufacturing takes (particularly machining identical parts or sheet metal punching), this is not a tall order at all.
If a team gets cheesecaked, then obviously they were okay with it. They allowed their robot to be cheesecaked, and so they accepted it.