[Basel A]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Please do give up at finding loopholes.

The reason rules like these have to exist isn't because bag day or the GDC, it's because teams try to find ways around the rules. For a long time, the culture discouraged "lawyering" the rules instead of following the intent. Teams that try to find the loopholes to gain an advantage rather than following the intent is what causes rules like this to be necessary.

I refuse to follow rules that don't exist. Why would you do that. Not to mention that they didn't lawyer anything! You've always been able to bag spare parts. They bagged spare parts. There was no upper limit. They bagged a lot of spare parts. They didn't go around anything.

Why are there limits on spare parts? The reason teams feel the want to grab parts from their robot in the trailer is because it's ridiculous not to let them. How many robots has the GDC crippled for an event because something critical broke without a legal spare? Is there any good reason?

+1 on banning "reasonably astute observer." If you had 3 reasonably astute observers they'd have 5 different opinions on what counts as a robot.