[Steve W]

If you wonder why people like myself get fed up and leave it is because certain people, you know who you are, continually try and find ways to beat the system. Breaking the rules, and the spirit of the rules, seems to be an OK thing to do. NOT!!!

FIRST tries to help out teams that do not normally have the issues with weather that many of us are used to. Others then try to take the advantage that they are given and expand it even further. The rules state that you must ship your robot. Period. you are allowed to withhold 65 lbs of fabricated parts. Period. The first rule that you must ship your robot is still in effect. Basically a robot has a frame, wheels/tread, motors to drive. As you are allowed to keep your CRio then that would be a base robot. Anything less and, in my opinion, is not shipping a robot.

'nuff said.