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We've had a lot of drivetrain analysis here, but not much on one of the interesting things I observed in this competition. Many teams specifically had spare gripper components ready for quick replacement. It looked like a lot of thought went into what to bring in order to prepare for gripper failure. Were these teams designing their grippers to fail at an easily repaired point or just going from hard experience or some combination of the two? How did they decide whether to upgrade design or simply repair the existing design when it was damaged?