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Message 864 from FRCtech2002:
In previous years some teams have built two identical robots during the six week build period. One for the competition, and one for practice before and after their events. Is keeping a second robot solely for practice purposes legal?
A) Yes that would be legal, be sure to ship the operator interface for this year's robot with the robot.
If keeping a practice robot is legal, then it could very easily be used to replace broken components on the competition robot. Is this legal?
A) You may use any parts from this robot for spares as long as they were built within the 6 week build and design period or within a couple of days after each event your team competes in.
According to the above ruling it is fine to use spares that were not shipped with the robot as long as they were built during the 6 week build and design period.
This ruling also appears to permit using a complete robot as a collection of "spares" if it was built during the 6 weeks, but I think FIRST has specifically outlwed this, at least they have in the past. If a team has done this, I think this clearly is not in the spirit of the competition.
tink... tink... (my 2 cents)
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20-03-2002, 08:19
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