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Originally Posted by Rachel Lim
Would cheesecaking robots from 2014 help alliances? Yes. Why wasn't it done then? Was the idea really not thought of until this year?
I guess a better question would be:
If we replayed Aerial Assist, would we see cheesecaking to the extent that we saw it in Recycle Rush?
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Cheesecaking in 2014 (in the form of modifying/adding mechanisms to alliance members) definitely happened, at least from 1678. Mike mentioned this in the original uproar when he popularized the term cheesecake.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...1&postcount=81
By the time we left the Sacramento regional (and possibly earlier, my memory is already fuzzy on this), we went to competitions knowing we'd be adding passive mechanisms to many robots in qualifications in order to maximize assist points in an attempt to seed first.
The key word there is probably "qualifications". We didn't pick robots for eliminations specifically for the ease with which we could add an assist mechanism to them- the second pick was often defense and driving, not how easy it would be to modify their robot. Because defense was still a thing.
I think that the cheesecake-ability affecting alliance selections seems to be what people are objecting to, not cheesecaking teams throughout the event.
I think we'd also see more cheesecake passed around if we replayed Aerial Assist in the current climate, just because more people have realized that it's an option.