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Re: 1519 - One Dual-Config Robot or Two Robots?

[quote=Al Skierkiewicz;711746]
Without really seeing the mechanisms in person, I would have to agree with the decision that was rendered at GSR based on the description and photos. A rather simple test in testing robot configurations is whether one supports the other as in a detachable arm or other component. If you consider Speed racer to be an attachment it would need to be "attched" to your other base. Moving electronics from one base that drives to another base that drives does not, in my mind, represent two attachments but two separate robots. QUOTE]

I'm sorry but I will have to respectfully disagree with you. In the rules I don't recall a rule on how many componets can be switched, just a weight rule. Therefore I see this teams as swapping out everything but there electronics board, as being one 'bot.

I believe when trying to figure out a 'base' for a robot, (in which the componets are swaped off of and put onto) that this topic gets confusing. BUT in the rules there is no mention of a 'base'.

And those are two great looking robots.
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