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Originally Posted by eugenebrooks
A robot with an arm ripped off is not inoperable, it can still play
defense. A robot with a lift that comes up 1/4 inch short of
12 inches can still lift a pair of robots 4 inches and score 30 points
doing it. This is far from inoperable. If your robot could not roll
around on the carpet, I would call it inoperable.
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I am not commenting on whether or not I feel that this strategy is okay. However, at least as far as robots with ripped of arms go, we have seen robots with broken arms and that sort of thing be replaced many times in the past few years. At BAE in 2005, we were the alliance captain and our arm was broken, we decided to ask for a replacement, which was allowed even though our robot could still drive. (This is only one example, but there are many) So I don't believe that any rules about the robot being completely inoperable have ever been enforced. I don't know about robots which are still in the condition that they were in when they were drafted.