I suspect this will get clarified tomorrow, but I feel that the answer is obvious as it is.
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Originally Posted by Game manual, page 11
The ROBOT includes both the HOSTBOT and the MINIBOT (ROBOT = HOSTBOT + MINIBOT).
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As said before, "MINIBOT" is singular, meaning that if you have two, one of them is part of the HOSTBOT. It doesn't matter if you have two identical devices, one of them is a MINIBOT (and therefore excluded from the HOSTBOT size/weight rules) and the other is not. The latter device (which I'll call the NOTBOT) must be weighed with the HOSTBOT and fit the size constraints with the HOSTBOT. If you deploy the NOTBOT, you've broken <G42>. You can't argue that whichever one you deploy is the MINIBOT and the other is the NOTBOT, because at inspection, one of them was part of the HOSTBOT, and one was the MINIBOT. Changing this is a violation of <R88>.
Based on <R10> and the definition of ROBOT, it seems safe to say, "Each team can enter ONE (1) HOSTBOT plus ONE (1) MINIBOT into the 2011 FRC."
Having multiple minibots is a clever and fun idea, but I can't see how the rules allow this.