[Kevin Sevcik]

The obvious difficulty with making a retroactive rule is that you don't know when the weight showed up. They could've added it after their last match. If you're dealing with a team that's already abusing the honor system, they're not going to tell you they added the weight after their first match.

At any rate, FIRST has to work on the honor system. There's little to prevent teams from pulling any number of similar stunts to get a little more performance by skirting the rules. Obviously they should be ashamed of themselves, but I'm unsure what we can do about things if they're not. Possibly we'll have to start being mean and naming names so other teams will know about them. And, of course, bring a heck of a lot more peer pressure into play to reinforce their moral fiber.