[Jay H 237]

The way I see it it's a tough question and different people are going to have different points of view. The way I see it is that some of the teams do better at constucting a robot than others because of the facilities available to them. The fact is a lot of times it depends who's involved with your team and who your sponsors are. Some teams don't have the resources to do certain machining and such and allow the sponsors to do it. I personally don't see an issue with this as long as the students are still able to learn. It just so happened that one of your mentors was involved with DEKA, and if they helped you out during the six weeks so be it, other teams had major corporations backing them too. So far I don't see any issues. Now here's where I don't agree with what you did, having facilities and an advantage available to you at a competition that other teams didn't. Other teams had to wait and possibly miss matches because something broke and they had to wait to get it fixed while you didn't have to worry about that. Personally it just seems that having that advantage at the competition is different than during the six weeks.

That's my two cents, feel free to agree or disagree.

[EDIT] I didn't realize M Krass posted before me and checking she is right...it is against the rules at competition.[EDIT]