[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by Cory

I'm going to use team 254/22 as an example.

Team 22 breaks their arm, they know 254 has a spare, they go get it, slap it on the robot, and they're good to go.

This is legal, because it's an identical spare.

Whichever team chose to use 188's grabber clearly would not be replacing their own with an identical spare, so it would be considered an upgrade (not made by the team during build, fix it window, or competition, not from a vendor, and not a COTS part) therefore making it illegal.

That raises all SORTS of legality questions. If 22 brought spares themselves and their spares and the arm weighed more than 24 lbs, then this would be illegal if you considered it a spare. I'm not even sure you can consider it a spare if another team brought it. I don't think it's really related at all, though.