Cheesecake: How far is too far?

[The Lucas]

Originally Posted by AGPapa

Interestingly enough, a team tried this in the past.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=65363

In 2008 1519 has two different configurations (which, together, weighed inside the 120lb limit, so no need for re-inspection). It was designed so the control system could be taken out of one config and put into another. They were ruled illegal as the rules state that "Each registered FIRST Robotics Competition team can enter ONE (1) ROBOT into the 2008 FIRST Robotics Competition" and the inspectors considered each configuration a separate robot.

It is like you read my mind, I was thinking of the perils of Speed Racer when I was posting this. The rules have changed significantly since then. With the new Q&A it would seem you could have a 120lb Fezzik and get reinpected as Speed Racer as needed instead of inspecting them together and changing the power pathways (which was part of the 2 Robot ruling issue). 900 went from swerve drive arm bot to kit drive harpoon bot with a reinspection, and could possibly change back with a reinspect.
I only had experience with one team that used the frequent reinspect Q&A. They had different parts for landfill and human player stacking that they couldn't get them combined under the weight limit so they got reinspected when they changed. Personally, I wanted to switch out one canburglar arm for a stage can swatter to speed up a staked tote set auto (essentially mutually exclusive auto tasks). The Q&A happened during the season, so teams only had the Withholding Allowance weight limit to make fabricated parts for different config. I wonder what teams will do if this is still the ruling before Bag Day next year (essentially unlimited weight for different configs).