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Originally Posted by dtengineering
The tradeoff of a light weight robot for increased build time struck me as a fair and reasonable engineering decision for a team to make.
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I agree with everything you said besides this. The problem is that the change happened after most teams already designed and built most of their robot. If at the beggining of the year the 'if you robot is under 65 pounds, you don't have to ship it' rule was in the rule book, I would have been fine with it. But, since it came so late teams that decided to build a light robot (for completely different reasons) got the huge advantage of keeping their entire robots for extra weeks.