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Originally Posted by Ari423

If you decide you don't want to be GP and want more time to work on your robot, it's a lot easier to not bag your robot and fake the lock-up form. Same effect, a lot less work.

But I'm confident no FIRST teams would do that.

You can legally build a practice robot - just don't bring it near the competition assembled.

A large percentage of the ChiefDelphi readers belong to teams that do just this based on my recent poll this year (including myself).

There are some limits obviously - you can only legally and practically change so much at the competition but it does give you some advantage. It can also bootstrap changing things between competitions.