[ChrisH]

Originally Posted by Tristan Lall

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.

Hmmm I think I hear phones ringing. Panic calls to the Rules committee to figure out how to close THAT loophole, which you could drive a truck through. Have you considered a career in Law Mr Lall?