[Kevin Sevcik]

Sanddrag,

I think the everyone would agree that it's great strategy. People are questioning whether it's fair to other teams that can't or won't collaborate with other teams. Imagine a world where 50% of the teams have mananged to get into a 3-4 team collaboration and can do this spare parts trick to effectively triple their spare parts. How fair is it to the other 50% of teams that can't use any tricks to get access to 75 lbs of spare parts?

Also to Karthik,

I too was considering how situations where teams donate fully functional systems to other teams. I agree that it's an incredibly generous thing to do, but I am undecided as to whether it's a good thing to encourage or not. You might end up with teams bringing a set of super tetra grippers to outfit their alliance partners with for the elims or some such madness. And under current rules, it's a toss up as to whether the extra grippers would be bound by any 25 lb weight limit. The good probably outweighs the bad in these instances, but as you said, it would be a very tricky thing to draw a rule up for.