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Originally Posted by Kevin Leonard
I don't think I've ever heard of a team building two different robots intended for use at different levels of competition.
I'm also not sure there's a legal way of doing so within the rules of FRC.
The only comparisons I can come up with are total robot rebuilds, where much of the robot is rebuilt or replaced using the withholding allowance and COTS parts, and when 2826 brought an entirely new machine with them to IRI 2013.
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team 2980 managed it this year: their robot had some sort of structural issue at their second event, so they completely disassembled it, and it was rebuilt by DCMP... IDK how they managed it, though...
also, on the subject of practice robots: they only help if you make robots that are at least decent. 2013 is the smudge on my team's record, and our practice bot didn't do too much to help. heck, even when it could climb, the competition robot still couldn't on field. however, this year, our robot was about average, but because of all the driving practice, we were able to become slightly above average, and discovered that we could upright containers