[GreyingJay]

It also kind of minimizes every part of the build season in favour of only looking at (presumably) winning. It says to me, never mind all the strategy work and planning and designing and time management and skill learning and testing and coding and teamwork and practice that you did during your build... forget all that and drive this instead because this will win more.

I would say this would be a grand gesture for a team that has had trouble getting something rolling and effective. The team that looks like they barely had time to assemble a working kitbot might appreciate this gesture on Thursday or Friday of a regional. A team might be interested in collaborating with you to build this ala the Simbacorns Harpoon Initiative. But I wouldn't want to be on a team that felt briefly elated because they were chosen only to find that the choosing team had an ulterior motive and no desire to use what they built.