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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
Further still, bringing a practice robot to an event isn't finding a novel strategy that "breaks the game," it's bending the rules.
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Okay, this goes a little too far. AT THE TIME that the team in question bagged their practice robot and brought it to the event, this was an ENTIRELY LEGAL act. It was smart. Less than a day between bag day and load in at the event? Very good idea to bag the practice robot to have at your disposal during the event; it was certainly of more use to them there than being out of the bag for another 18 hours or so. Some degree of rest was probably a better use of that time anyway.
Rules updates should not been applied
ex post facto to vilify teams who acted entirely within the rules at the time.