[JAH]

I really do not know what to take of all this. It technically seems as if FIRST rules don't rule this out but it also seems a bit unfair. If you're going to pair up, why don't one of you take a rookie team under your wing and show them the ropes? Why take two, experienced veteran teams and make one robot essentially, just copied. FIRST is about gracious profesionalism, but it also is a competition...FIRST Robotics Competition, as the title says right here.

Competition- A test of skill or ability; a contest.

How is having something done for you a test of skill? Why compete if you're perfectly matched? I understand working together, assisting and all, but building whole components for each other...seems a bit unfair. Wouldn't everyone learn more in the end if you made your own robot? Ok, one team may be experts in drive trains, the other in appendages. Well, how are the teams supposed to grow and learn and advance their knowledge if they have others do it all for them? It, overall, is a very unique idea but still shakey in my book. Just...wow.