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Originally Posted by SlimBoJones
I'm even more curious to people's interpretation of the "spirit" behind this kind of an exchange. Is it one team trying to help another? Should this be discouraged? Or is it one team gaining a blatantly unfair advantage?
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At first reading, it seems that a team simply wants to be generous. Thinking about it further: if I were on the donor team, I might be thinking how wonderful it would be if even a piece of our robot made it to the Championship--sort of a proxy for our team.
But "no recognition"? On the one hand, the "anonymous" donor team might still feel good about their gift for both the above reasons. On the other hand, is this implying a secret, underhanded deal, because of legality questions?
As far as an "unfair advantage," I doubt it. First of all, what is the likelihood of any team being able to fit this arm to their robot, without having collaborated with the donor team during build season? Secondly, is the arm really that good? However generous, or legal/illegal this situation would be, I doubt it would be
possible for a team to adapt this arm, and to train their drivers to use it, in the one practice day at competition.
By the way, when do we get our kittens? Wait--scratch that--our cat doesn't want any competition!
