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Re: Getting a headstart?

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Originally Posted by Marc P.
I've heard multiple reports of a team that builds their entire actual robot drive train before kickoff, and just waits for the kit to plug in the motors, the robot controller, and whatever item the game would require them to build, so they end up with a full robot in less than 2 weeks.
Well then you shouldn't believe everything you hear.

I heard some team removed their robot from the pits at nats so they could work on it at night!

I heard someone saw a robot being taken inside a hotel!

But I don't believe any of it unless I saw it with my own eyes

Luckily most people are honest enough not to do what you describe. A few teams have the resources to take a set of plans and hand them to a shop, and get the finished parts for say a gearbox, arm, etc in the timeframe you just described. Doesn't mean they cheated though

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