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Re: YMTC: Redabot weighs 129.8?

Aside: Well, that's why I keep telling myself to type posts in Notepad and save frequently. A brief power outage just engulfed a rather lengthy post. I don't think I have time to type it out again tonight, but maybe I'll regain enough stamina tomorrow afternoon to go through and type it again. Just as a brief summary of the main thing that I was trying to say, I'll provide this position with regrettably insufficient corroborating explanation:

I think that Al's last situation differs in that the excess weight is being used on the field, rather than as a part of something going on in the pits. I submit that a team is given leave to configure the robot however they want during the time that it is in the pits, simply because maintenance often creates temporary, intentional situations where the robot is not legally operable, and as such, it is impossible to apply the rules. To add the motor to the second assembly while that assembly is in the pits is simply a reasonable interpretation of that privilege; to deny a team the liberty to take this action is to also cause a great number of supposedly legitimate maintenance tasks to become illegal. For example, if the team with the multi-bolted robot needed to install all bolts to debug their programming, would it be illegal? Their robot is overweight during that activity, but rest assured that the robot would never compete in a configuration that would cause it to be overweight; I say that Redabot is similar, and that neither of these teams would need to install their extra components during inspection, because they would not be used in a match--merely used to configure the robot in the pits.

That might not be brief by anyone else's standards. So be it.

And by the way, thanks for the compliment, Al.
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