900's Championship Cheesecaking Chronicles

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by 216Robochick288

At what point does improving a robot become a new one all together? I have no issues with improving a robot, but when you pour your heart and soul into a robot that you call your own, then 95% of it gets replaced by someone else is it really you improving your bot?

I have great love and respect for the teams involved, it just makes me sad to see whole robots thrown aside.

This is a great question, and one I've mused over with many people. So far, I've found it impossible to come up with a rule wording that can draw the line clearly at a certain amount of cheesecaking- how do you allow an assembled gearbox without allowing an entire arm? How do you allow and arm without allowing an entire robot? A vague rule could be created that would require on-site interpretation for each presented solution, but I don't see how we can make it a plain black and white difference.

I also think it's important in this thread to be clear on one thing: any dislike of the rule that allows cheesecaking should not extend to these teams or this situation. They played the game according to the rules given and to the best of their abilities - if this rule hadn't been present, then I highly doubt we would have seen this take place . One of the great things about FRC is seeing teams push the limits and boundaries in a gracious manor, and forcing the rest of us to rethink our basic conceptions of how to approach the game challenge. They definitely accomplished that here!