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Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV
The biggest problem is that for teams that did bag two things that look like "robots" (not ROBOTs) for the intended purpose of having spare parts they will be in trouble for something that they had no idea was illegal and it's already in the bag(s). Also the current rule does not prevent teams from assembling a 2nd robot at the event, you just can't bring it to the event. You can still build it there from mechanisms that you bring.
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I'll grant you that this is a broken update for anyone who's bagged a "robot" for spare parts. Retroactively making things illegal is not cool. Also, I'll admit I hadn't considered that teams could actually bag an entire mostly complete robot as a spare, since that's so far outside my team's experience. In that light, a more targeted ruling to keep teams from swapping in an entire robot as a "repair" for a broken robot would be a better idea. Seeing as philosophers are still arguing about whether someone is the same "person" if you instantly swap all their atoms for identical but different ones, I don't think I want to tackle that rule tonight...