The cheesecake runaway

[Skyehawk]

Originally Posted by Rangel(kf7fdb)

... Heck with the current rules, couldn't a team give away an entire robot as cheesecake?

Way to take to an extreme, why not bring an entire alliance of bots with you? And cheesecake your partners EVERY match...

In all actuality though, there is the root of the problem, so long as the other team had something to do with the design on the robot what's to stop a team from cheesecaking most (if not all) of a robot?

I find anything past minor cheesecaking repulsive, its like saying "Hey good job this season team 9999, but hey, umm, how about you change the functionality of your bot, throw all your strategy, engineering, and work-hours out the window, and go win this next match for us."

While it may be cool to get mechanisms from other teams (you can learn a lot) it takes away from the work with what you have aspect of matches that I love so much. A tweak here or there from other teams to improve existing mechanisms or to optimize a strategy with the addition of a pair of wheels on some grabbers, or a better gearbox is fine in my opinion, but, as has been stated before, some of this stuff can get really out of hand at times.