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Re: Spare parts and duplicate robots

A rule like this would make sense to me. If you have a 4 team collaboration, the could concievably coordinate spare parts and bring an entire robot of spare parts between them. It does seem a bit unbalancing. If the robots truly are exactly identical, you could concievably have a collaborating team donate their entire robot to another team for the elims so they could just swap control systems between matches if the robot hit a land mine or something.

It would be a tricky rule to word, however. You don't want to overly restrict teams helping each other. The best wording I would think would be something like "Teams may only use the 25 lbs of spare parts they have brought on site, any spare parts in their crate, or COTS items, kit parts or raw materials from any source." The point being that you can't use manufactured parts from other teams. The problem being that that might prevent another team from manufacturing a part on site for you. So maybe a clause for "or parts manufactured on site." I'm not certain it's a big enough issue to worry about yet, but it potentially could be.
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