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Re: Functional Changes at Competitions
Posted by Patrick Dingle at 03/24/2001 7:53 PM EST


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In Reply to: Functional Changes at Competitions
Posted by Gary Bonner on 03/24/2001 7:33 PM EST:



I have never heard of this rule... Our team made a fairly significant design change to our robot (and refs, judges were aware of it). However, we did not add any parts -- rather we made a new system from parts from an old system. This was at NYC...

I am aware of a rule that you can't make any design changes in the 3-day period after the competition.

Patrick

: At the Philly competition this morning (Saturday), an announcement was made in the pits that functional changes were not allowed to be made to the robot during the competition. I queried this and showed the announcer Raul's 2/26 post of his discussion with Eric on this issue. His understanding was that changes could be made up until your first match, and after that you could only make repairs or changes that didn't affect the performance of the robot. He said that if I wanted to question it further, I needed to talk to a judge, who sent me to a referee, who sent me to the head referee, who didn't have time to talk to me. As a result, we didn't do some tweaking that would have help our robot better fit its role in the elimination round. As it turned out, it didn't matter, but it could have.

: How is this issue been dealt with at other regional events?


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