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Originally Posted by Basel A
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.
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As I understand it, 900 not only ". . .bagged a lot of spare parts" at Palmetto, they drove their spare parts around on the practice field to work on their stability problem. This astute observer sees that as a second robot, no matter what it looked like in the bag without all its complete systems and parts.
Was this group of spare parts inspected for safety before being allowed on the practice field? Did it have a sticker? I can see where having a nearly complete robot for spare parts in a bag on bag day could be legal, but not if it goes running around under power on the practice or competition fields.
I vote for a rule which allows only inspected robots to be powered up and driven around other robots.