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Re: No Ship Day?

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Originally Posted by DevenStonow View Post
Also, in all honesty(and I probably shouldn't have made the post because of this), I wasn't 100% what exactly this pre-event inspection entailed. And yes, I'm 100% well-aware that teams can do illegal modifications, but it's much harder to get caught when your robot is not under FIRST supervision(and yes, I know FIRST isn't watching every move you make at a competition, but still). Also, I generally try to view FIRST through rose-colored glasses, but I'm well aware it's not the truth.
The possibility that this could happen doesn't concern me that much. I believe that 99/100 teams will honestly try to the very best of their abilities to follow all the rules that are enforced only by honor code. And for that 100th team, if the worst they are doing is modifying their robot to be illegal, I am relieved. There are much worse things that they could be doing (not bagging the robot until the night before the event, using a chassis they built in the preseason) that would bother me. But I cannot imagine what a team could do to give themselves such a huge advantage within such a short timespan. It is still immoral to try to do this, but if allowing one team out of a hundred to cheat means that teams who accidentally made an illegal robot get more inspection time to try and get it fixed, the by all means let those losers do what they want. The teams that would actually do that are normally teams that have bad robots whether they cheat or not, and probably won't do well anyways.
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