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Originally Posted by CharlieWilken
What a fantastic game!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The only problem for me is my extreme extreme disappointment that we cannot fabricate parts for our robots. Official vex parts only makes no sense to me. My machine shop students now will not get to practise thier skills. 
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Well, if you want to split hairs, you -can- custom fabricate parts, so long as they meet the requirements of <R5> and <R9>. Of course, if the inspector can't tell whether it's a Vex product, you'll have to prove it through documentation as <R7> lays out. The key is to have it come from Vex components (and, to make your inspector happy, remain recognizable as such).
Look in CD-Media at some of last year's robots; I was a particular fan of South Carolina teams 4 (now 507, I believe) and 171 (now 1539):
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/tags/fvc4
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/tags/fvc171
(Those URLs may change with the renumbering, but just change the numbers in the links to the new numbers, and life will be good.)
They were two-thirds of the winning alliance at the Orangeburg pilot tournament, and 4 won the Create Award, which is the forerunner of this year's Inspire award. I'd call them two of the best robots in the state, and prime examples of what you can do with the Vex system (read: just about anything you can do with sheetmetal).