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Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/Multiple Teams at One School

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Originally Posted by Rich Kressly View Post
It also happened at the Championship this past year with 177...
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=56906

I'd like to think this is entirely unintentional, but under the new rule, this would not be allowed.
Team 228 won the Sportsmanship Award at the 2007 UTC Connecticut Regional for repairing and driving robots for some of the other teams who had to return home due to the huge blizzard during the regional and were unable to continue competing.

Personally, I was also asked at both the UTC Regional and the Championships in 2007 if I was available to be one of the backup drivers for 177 if they needed it.

Because of the situations like these, I think FIRST should further clarify this new rule about limiting a student to only being a member of one team. Under special circumstances where one team is unable (for reasons beyond their control) have a drive team, having a substitute drive team should be allowed.

Perhaps this can even be clarified by limiting all 'non-team-member' students on the drive team to a maximum of two or three matches; this way, one team cannot use another team's drivers for an entire competition.
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