Cheesecake robot. How far is too far?

[Taylor]

Conceptually, I am firmly against cheesecaking, for many reasons I won't bother to list here.

Then I think about 2013, when we completely rebuilt our robot at INTH, with the help of another team who gave us parts and labor that helped us immensely, and we told the judges about it and this team won the GP award at the event, and we were by the letter of the definition the recipients of cheesecake.

So my personal conclusion is the same that I've reached across many other false dichotomies in our landscape - student v mentor built, child v adult coach, etc.

If it works for that team in that situation, then good for them.