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Originally Posted by Billfred
...but there is always sticking the spare in the crate, at which point you're only limited by how much you can fit in the crate. (Then again, knowing what they charge for crate overages, I'd almost rather deal with the broken weld.  ) |
That certainly works too, if you can disassemble the frame, or wedge it in somewhere. Or you can ship a second crate for spares*.
(Also, I'm now recalling that the rule was 25 pounds, not 20....)
*The 2006 rules say that you may enter one robot per team. But if the spare (meaning identical, for all intents and purposes) robot is a spare fabricated assembly, and is packed in "the crate" (presumably meaning "one of the crates", since teams are allowed to ship 2), are you really entering twice? I think not, since the robots cannot compete simultaneously. So you could do even better than just a spare frame, if you really wanted to annoy everyone.