Amusing Rule Inconsistency - Are All Robots Illegal?

[RoboChair]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

I am not sure how you're drawing the conclusion that I changed the words, I literally copied and pasted them verbatim from the manual.

What you quoted.

ROBOT: an electromechanical assembly built by an FIRST Robotics Competition Team to perform specific tasks when competing in
FIRST STRONGHOLD. It includes all of the basic systems required to be an active participant in the game: power, communications,
control, BUMPERS, and movement. The implementation must obviously follow a design approach intended to play FIRST
STRONGHOLD (e.g. a box of unassembled parts placed on the FIELD or a ROBOT designed to play a different game would not
satisfy this definition)

Versus the exact wording in the Team Update and updated Game Manual https://firstfrc.blob.core.windows.n...esComplete.pdf

The ROBOT must be an electromechanical assembly built by the FIRST Robotics Competition Team to perform specific tasks when competing in FIRST STRONGHOLD. The ROBOT must include all of the basic systems required to be an active participant in the game - power, communications, control, BUMPERS, and movement. The ROBOT implementation must obviously follow a design approach intended to play FIRST STRONGHOLD (e.g. a box of unassembled parts placed on the FIELD or a ROBOT designed to play a different game would not satisfy this definition).

Based on how R1 has been worded in the Team Update, R1 is not defining what a ROBOT IS, it is describing what a ROBOT must HAVE to be allowed to compete.