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Non-Vex parts??? That is odd.
Here in the US we are only allowed to use Vex parts - Does being far away from IFI's warehouses mean the rules were relaxed for your tournament, or was it an "unofficial" tournament? or was something else going on?
Blake
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as phr34kR said, ours aren't currently qualifying for champs.
its mostly the cost of importing parts from the U.S. i think, so to get us some practice - since this is the first year of VEX in New Zealand - they currently allowing non-VEX parts.
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Saying that our VEX robot that was fully VEX came second while our other robot that includes some curtain rail and sheet aluminum was on the winning alliance. our team is trying to get our robots as close to fully VEX as we can ATM so come the official competitions we will have a trialed design.
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we had our pneumatic-claw robot (christened ricebot by me and some mates - long story) in one semi and our tank tread bot (Philup

) in the other, both with full VEX parts. oh, except for the flashing LEDs on the ricebot when one of the boys got bored, and the tinsel on Philup
of the eight bots in the semi's at least three were full VEX

and i believe it was more like three that weren't
i think the next competition is March 9th - not sure if that counts for champs though
see you in the finals phr34kR?

unfortunately i don't think i will be driving next time though as the seniors like to do everything themselves (*yr 10*

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unfortunately our banner is no more (heavily taped and zip-tied) we will hopefully be getting a proper final one soon though
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awww that really sucks, we'll have ours there next competition. we're VERY proud of it haha
saw your buttons, too. they were cool

we hope to have ours for next competition so might have to organize an exchange