[Kit Gerhart]

To me, the biggest thing wrong with the rule being discussed is that it will probably result in a lot of 'cheating.' Cheating is not 'gracious professionalism,' but teams which find themselves in desperate situations may be inclined to chance it.

What I am thinking of is a team which breaks a major part or assembly near the end of one of their regionals. If it is something that would be hard to make in the pits at the next competition or that they may not have time to make in the machine shop, they may be inclined to make the needed parts at home and 'sneak' them into the next competition.

While no team would want to do this, it could, and probably will happen if it would be a team's only way to get their broken robot running for nationals.