[KenWittlief]

by the same logic you could say that as long as you have rules, people are going to cheat

therefore eliminate all the rules?!

isnt that like throwing up your hands and giving up?

Since FIRST is suppose to be an emulation of a real engineering program - maybe we need to factor that into the spare parts rulings

maybe raise the robot materials limit to $4k, but include the cost of spare parts in that?

in the real world, if you sold a car with a 3year warrenty, and you had to give the owner a new free engine every 6 months your company would be out of business in a year or two

we need to find a way to inject that reality into FIRST.