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Why is it a problem to bring a practice robot to drive on practice day?
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Its unfair because in engineering you always have to make tradeoffs
if your bot needs work then you cant pratice
if you decide to start making changes to your bot that will keep it from running on thursday then your team will get no practice
if you shipped a bot that still needed work then your team will get no practice
allow a team to build a second bot, and continue to work on it after the ship date, and bring it to the regional on the bus, and use it on the field to get practice
while the other teams have to decide which is more important, modifying the bot or meeting the practice schedule
Its clearly an unfair advantage to more heavily financed and supported teams - I know FIRST is unfair on some levels, but we dont have to make it worse by letting well funded teams do whatever they please, taking every possible advantage over the little guy.
besides, FIRST has a very clear definition of what you teams 'robot' is and what its not - your practice bot is NOT your teams robot
why would you think you can bring something else to drive around on the playfield? can we drive our bus on the field? why not? its not in the rules either?