Team Update 14 (2016)

[Michael Corsetto]

Originally Posted by EricH

Here's my suggestion to improve bag-and-tag:

Cut the withholding allowance to 20 lb SPARE parts. (Or remove it altogether.) COTS items remain unlimited.

The loose translation would be that if it doesn't match what's on the robot already*, it's gotta be in a bag on bag day.

[insert "grumpy mentor" "back-in-my-day-we-boxed-up-the-robot-and-all-its-spares" section here]


*The definition of "match" is intentionally left a little bit fluid, because no two parts will be 100% identical--maybe something got an extra hole somewhere or something like that. I hate to use the "reasonably astute observer" standard but that may need to be what is used.

Now we have to make any "new" parts at the event, right? So we'll outfit our new pit with a CNC router, mini-lathe, chop saw, and use Thursday to build-build-build all those new parts for our competition robot.

Your bag and tag rules just put us in even more of a corner. We have to waste more time and money to achieve our team's goals.

Why you gotta be like that?

-Mike