Not bagging entire robot? (Rule Change)

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

As I read the rules, you would have a ROBOT in the bag and various assemblies that do not add up to a ROBOT outside of the bag, which makes it legal. That's something a lot of teams do every year - they build their robot, then they remove one or more assembly that attaches to it to continue testing.

So, to achieve this a team could bag a junk drive with some electronics and carry in a good deal of systems that would then be assembled with cannibalized parts from the bagged robot to create a robot out of what was just a pile of dumb systems.