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Originally Posted by Wetzel
FIRST told us durring kickoff to use common sense and gracious professionalism to understand the intent behind the rules. They even put that IN the rules.
I think it is clear that FIRST did not intend teams to take parts of the robot off site and work on it all night at their hotel. It doesn't matter the rules as written may be fuzzy, the intent has been consistently made clear.
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Here's my thing... Where is this clear intent coming from? We're all vets here, so we have a reasonably good idea what's up, but rookies don't have this benefit. I'm all for not reading rules like a lawyer, but that rule just screams to me to be cleared up. If a rookie or layman came across that, they'd read it that they're allowed to work on the robot whenever, as long as they can work in the Pits, or at a publicly available team shop. It states there, quite clearly, that you're allowed to work on your robot that entire time. This is one instance where I don't think it's onerous to clarify the rule. If you can't work on the robot the entire time, just say you're only allowed to work during official pit hours, no matter where. Call a spade a spade, not "that black suit, oh yeah, and everyone knows clubs don't count, right?"
Also, my profs always told me that part of engineering thinking is not artificially constricting yourself with assumptions that arent necessary. Don't add things to the problem that aren't there.