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Originally Posted by Karthik
A way of enforcing the simpler part of the 25# rule, would be to have teams declare their spare parts on Thursday morning, and have a sticker with a team number placed on them signifying ownership.
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Maybe this could be added to the inspection checklist?
There may be logistical difficulties with tagging or otherwise identifying spare parts that have been declared at inspection and/or at check-in.
In St. Louis we've had a policy of checking teams on their way into the venue Thursday morning to see what spares and potentially dangerous tools they are bringing. We've stationed a few robot inspectors at the entry doors for that purpose.
The policy started in 2005 as an attempt to prevent a repeat of the 2004 incident in which a team brought a spare robot into the venue and used it to practice while they completed the competition robot in their pit.
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