Tito,
Speaking on behalf of 118, there would be no ill feelings toward 192 or FIRST regardless of your decision. Concerning FIRST, people seem to have a problem with FIRST when the rules are changed that don't favor them BUT when FIRST changes a rule that benefits a team, the applause is non-existent. Similar to the "real-world", I suggest taking the ethical high ground and taking advantage of all rule changes.
This brings me to your bigger dilemma. The rule change for post-regional construction is preempted by
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From Page 2 of Team Update 6
In order to better allow teams to replace robot components that fail or do not work well at
competition events, FIRST has decided to alter it's policy regarding fabrication of parts when the
robot is out of team hands.
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I interpret this rule to mean that the post-regional construction time is for repairs and improvements to preexisting components. Although I have heard too many times to count things similar to 'Wait until Nationals, we'll have a __________ (you fill in the "new" feature)', in my humble opinion, you have to construct your tape measure extension in the pits on Thursday morning at Nationals and not use the one that was constructed under the post-regional construction rule. With this said, I may be totally wrong because your new tape measure may just be an improvement of your present mechanism (this is something for you to decide). Please, please, don't take this as a knock against 192 ... I am simply giving my interpretation of the rule. AND please, please, please, don't start flaming me if you are a team that has added that new feature you saw at a regional and are feeling a little bit guilty now. Not that this will be comforting but our team also struggled with what a "new" feature was versus what "improving" a feature was ... we decided not to walk the line and make any and all improvements on Thursday although it would have been MUCH easier to do it before Wednesday night.
Good luck with your dilemma(s) & take care,
Lucien