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Originally Posted by IndySam
I'm not worried about teams cheating with the bags. There are a thousand ways to cheat that could never be detected by inspection but we work on the honor system in FIRST so I don't worry about it.
If they would use the bags for teams who can easily transport their robots they can save the FedEx donations for teams who can't.
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Exactly!
Even without bagging, teams still have ample opportunities to cheat the system.
They can build mechanisms in the offseason and use them on their competition machine. They can lie on their bill of materials. They can bring entirely new mechanisms into a regional, not having obeyed the fix it window or weight allowance rules. They can have adults write the Woody Flowers Award entries.
If we trust GP to prevent these infractions, then it's ridiculous to say that we don't think that GP will prevent teams from deliberately disobeying the bagging rules.