The cheesecake runaway

[Basel A]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

As has been pointed out here already, what outside of practicality is preventing a team from bagging an entire robot and then cheesecaking it onto another team's RoboRIO during Division elims?

People keep bringing this up. After seeing it a few times, I feel like it needs an answer. What stops teams from doing this? The rules. The March 17th Team Update inserted the following into R17: "With permission from another Team, Teams may also have access to FABRICATED ITEMS that are part of that other Team’s WITHHOLDING ALLOWANCE to repair and/or upgrade their ROBOT." The end of the rule reads "Items made at an Event do not count towards this weight limit."

This means that if a team would like to cheesecake, they have two options: sacrifice their own withholding allowance (which has a weight limit) or sacrifice their own time at the event. It keeps teams from sharing huge mechanisms, while still allowing teams to help each other out within reasonable extents. This is a great rule. Kudos GDC.