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

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Originally Posted by squirrel View Post
The rules are vague about what constitutes a robot, but if you use your common sense judgement, do you see one or two robots?
While it is clearly obvious that there are 2 separate machines there, at a competition, only 1 of them will ever be operating at a time and combined they fit the requirements needed (minus the bumpers).

Not go get into teh what-if game, but what if speed racer in its down time was simply strapped to fezzik....so when presented it was one whole system basically speed racer is acting as a ballast and thats all, just added weight.

Speed racer has on its person the electronics battery and you name it. Now as per rule r114 they would be able to remove the system of fezzik and leave speed racer on the floor.

To me its the fact they are still able to fairly easily implement their design by doing some simple solutions and adhering to the rules. What they did could be done within the rules.

While I am still on the fence on this whole situation, I see both sides to this argument and you brought up a good point squirrel..
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