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Originally Posted by bhweezer
What about the majority of FIRST teams that don't have the funds and materials to build a second robot? It doesn't make it fair for the teams that do to have the extra practice driving and whatnot.
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Dean's said it many a time--FIRST isn't necessarily fair. And, for better or for worse, this extends to the realm of practice robots.
The main problem I see with trying to block practice bots is how FIRST could a) write a rule with any amount of teeth, and b) enforcing it. How do you regulate things that a team does that are done outside of the build and competitions? I'm not sure it's possible without somehow blocking a legitimate thing (such as someone that wants to start prototyping for 2006).
If anyone wants to take a crack at writing such a rule, I'd be very interested to see the result.