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Seems to be a Contradiction...
From the FRC_Tech board:
Message 771:
A) From team update 6 and message 767, You will have to ship all the spare parts after the 6 weeks build period, to make sure teams stop building after the time limit. For the first regional your team attend, you may not bring any spare parts you build after 6-weeks.
Message 864:
In previous years some teams have built two identical robots during the six week build period. One for the competition, and one for practice before and after their events. Is keeping a second robot solely for practice purposes legal?
A) Yes that would be legal, be sure to ship the operator interface for this year's robot with the robot.
If keeping a practice robot is legal, then it could very easily be used to replace broken components on the competition robot. Is this legal?
A) You may use any parts from this robot for spares as long as they were built within the 6 week build and design period or within a couple of days after each event your team competes in.
My interpretation of the rules is that you have to ship all spare parts with your robot (message 771).... unless you use them on a spare robot (message 864). If you use them on a spare robot they must only be built during legal build periods????
We forgot to include a part in our crate that was build legally during the six weeks. It's a simple piece of polycarbonate with the biggest problem being that we put a crease in it using a break. Yes we could reproduce it at the regional and functionally it would be equivalent, but it will not look nearly as nice. Had we built a spare robot, it seems we could use it on that spare robot and then bring it, for use at our first regional, but since we don't have a spare robot, using it is against the rules.
I'm not one for breaking rules, but this seems ludicrous. Does anyone object to all teams getting the same privelage as teams who built spare robots, in that a team can use any spare part as long as it was build during the legal build period?
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