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Originally Posted by Cory
You can bring a practice robot to the competition, you just can't use parts from it. Let's say that the real robot is in bad mechanical shape, so the pit crew is frantically working to make the components perform properly. Meanwhile, the programmers could be working on autonomous mode, or any kind of programming, and debugging everything on there, so that when the real thing is "done" they know what exactly they need to do to get it to 100%
Cory
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But what's to stop a team with two identical robots (one working perfectly, one having a lot of mechanical issues) from placing the "perfect" one in a match rather than the broken one?
I'd like to think teams would be more professional than this and know it's completely against the rules. But I know there are still some teams out there who would do this.
If it's not illegal to bring your practice bot, fully assembled, to a competition, I think it should be.