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Re: No Ship Day?

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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz View Post
Paul, the numbers are way higher than you imagine.
This year the modifications that were being made with regularity was the addition of blocking devices. Teams made the change thinking, "Hey we're 20 lbs underweight so we can add a lot". The reality, there was still a height restriction that must be met. Also, not discussed much, if a robot needs to modify the current robot to accomplish the change (not simply adding something), and the change would have put the robot over weight with the original parts, you can't go back to original configuration at that event (T08).
The inspection team and the LRI in particular are your friends. They are tasked with making all teams have a great event and they are chosen so that their experience can help you compete. Please include them in your decision to modify your robot at an event. In no particular order, we have seen teams wanting to make these changes during the weekend...
1. Remove half of the robot since it is not functioning the way the team had hoped.
2. Adding weight to get better friction for defensive strategies.
3. Modifying designs to make their alliance partners happy.
4. Modifying to get an alliance partner to pick them.
5. Adding free weights, vises, lead, lead shot, water bottles, extra battery and tools to add weight or balance parts of the robot.
6. Remove wheels, add motors, remove drive train parts.
7. Add attachments to change robot dimensions or contact the floor.
8. anything you can think of while you are reading this...
While many of these can be legal modifications and pass inspection, they are not necessarily the right action for your team. Making significant changes in weight for instance vastly affect driving performance which will take your drive team back to square one. In the finals, a known robot behavior is better than starting off from scratch.
I understand a lot of teams probably end up doing illegal things. But I believe that they at least don't do them with the intent to cheat. I think in most cases it is just ignorance, and that is a completely different issue with different solutions. I don't think many teams forgot to bag their robot until the night before the event. But teams may do smaller things illegally without knowing. I agree that teams should talk to event staff with every change they aren't certain of. But I like to think very few teams purposefully cheat if they know they can get away with it.
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