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Originally Posted by russell

Is there a rule against dismantling tetras? Like giving your robot a wrench or whatever and having it actually undo the bolts? I am not sure why one would want to do this, but some teams are talking about how many tetras they can fit on their bot, and if they could quickly assemble/dissassemble the tetras it would be a lot easier to store them.

That's definitely illegal. 100%. Maybe you weren't around for it last year, but FIRST stressed that when reading and interpreting the rules, we always let gracious professionalism and common sense prevail. This falls under common sense, I believe.

Basically, if something *seems* extremely illegal, but there is no specific rule against it, count on it being made indirectly illegal by some other rule (in this case the "no damaging the field or field components" rule), or just being so lacking in common sense that it is assumed to be illegal.

Know what is and is not illegal, but also know what is and is not in the spirit of the rules.

This isn't focused just on you---lots of other people should probably take notice. Here, have some positive reputation for thinking outside the box.