Thread: 1519 - One Dual-Config Robot or Two Robots?
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Unread 03-03-2008, 16:39
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Re: 1519 - One Dual-Config Robot or Two Robots?
I believe that the game design committee's response is flippant and not in the spirit of first. The design presented was incredibly creative and their own ruling would seem to make the 1519 design legal.

Unless I'm mistaken
"A Mechanism is defined as a COTS or custom assembly of components that provde specific functionality ON THE ROBOT"
would make their design legal.

The barb about lawyering at the end of the statement was unnecessary and not at all characteristic of the teams attitude as the have attempted to resolve the problem.

I'm still of the opinion that the RC is the robot and any additional parts are mechanisms, but I guess first would rather keep their competitions drab and beat down innovation.
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