The cheesecake runaway

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Originally Posted by Mr. Van

How about:

The Withholding Allowance (or perhaps anything brought into the competition venue) is limited to Spare or Upgrade MECHANISMS/COMPONENTS for the team's (not alliance's) robot. MECHANISMS/COMPONTENTS brought for the specific intent of being applied to other team's robots are prohibited. Teams are encouraged to bring COTS items to help/upgrade ALL teams at the event. Modifications to any team's robot belong to that team.

Is that a reasonable place to start from?

- Mr. Van
Coach, Robodox

No. It goes back to the rule that lead to the thread where the cheesecake term came from, which was then reversed because FIRST was made aware of how it disallowed so many things that are good for FIRST.

At this point I've read this and the 900 champs thread, and all I've seen is this:

Team Cheesecake: "as a recipient of cheesecake I can tell you this was extremely inspirational for our team. Our kids loved being a part of this alliance"

Team lactose/gluten/fat free cake: "This made me feel icky regardless of the fact the team it happened to didn't feel icky. This wasn't the intent of FIRST. Also the other teams that could do things and didn't get drafted felt icky. This should be outlawed!"

Unless someone has a better argument than how seeing this makes you "feel", I think the evidence is pretty overwhelming that only good came of this.