[Hieb]

In my view it would be illegal because although it wasn't carried into the venue itself, the "spare parts", aka the practice bot, weighed more than 25 pounds and was brought to the competition. I do see where you are going with this--since it wasn't physically in the venue, then should only the 25 pounds that they actually carry in by considered in what they can "bring to the compitition." So....once again the team that feels the need to "bend" the rules will interpret the actions as not having "brought" more than 25 pounds to the competition, where those that prefer to stay safely within the rules won't consider it.