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Originally Posted by squirrel
1519 has to replace the whole robot
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I've been going back and forth on this a whole bunch, but I think we've finally got this pinned down. ROBOT is not clearly defined in the manual. Some folks take the "looks like a duck" approach, others take the FLL (robot = brain) approach. This is the whole problem that we're having. Since ROBOT is ill-defined, and since a reasonable person could consider the RC and its related electronics to be a robot, 1519 has satisfied the rules as written in the current revision of the manual.
This Q&A response seems to me to be a sort of concession from the GDC that even if a team is breaking their ideas for the spirit of the game, it's really the letter of the rules that counts. Regardless of what we (the community and the GDC) think a ROBOT ought to be, the manual tells us that 1519 could reasonably be considered to have showed up with one ROBOT.