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Point of Reserve Gears?

From looking at the manual, I cannot seem to find the reason for the reserve gears. Why would FIRST give teams an easy 40 points for making the very first rotor for no real reason? I feel like there has got to be something more going on here.
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Re: Point of Reserve Gears?

I would hope the pilots are paying enough attention and load it during Autonomous, when it would be worth 60 points.
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Re: Point of Reserve Gears?

Also, why is there a gear housed in the airship? Are pilots able to use that gear?
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Re: Point of Reserve Gears?

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I would hope the pilots are paying enough attention and load it during Autonomous, when it would be worth 60 points.
Correction, 60 points for you and 25 for your opponent. A05.
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Re: Point of Reserve Gears?

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I would hope the pilots are paying enough attention and load it during Autonomous, when it would be worth 60 points.
Make sure to check A05

A05. PILOTS: don’t take the “free” GEAR yet. During AUTO, PILOTS may not remove the reserve GEAR from the slot in which it begins the MATCH.
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Re: Point of Reserve Gears?

I would think that they are giving you this 40 points (or a start to the next rotor if you got a gear in during AUTO) to make sure that your ship can at least fly out to the race you are theoretically preparing for.

It makes the whole story a bit nicer.
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Re: Point of Reserve Gears?

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Correction, 60 points for you and 25 for your opponent. A05.
Let me get my foot out of my mouth.

So it looks like just that, a free 40 points.
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