Angel Wings

[Greg Needel]

Originally Posted by pakratt1991

I hate to sound like this.
but this is against the rules, this is not fair, my team thought of this problem during build season and implementing those new platforms gives you a significant advantage of being able to improve your robot after competition.

to site my source

while what you are saying may be correct, this picture appears to be a replacement part. it says in the caption of the photo that

"We will be adding two each anti-backing devices and a strip of rubber around the perimeter at the top of the angle."

if they don't do this until the competition then it would be perfectly legal, assuming that these are just replacement parts.

[pakratt1991]

while what you are saying may be correct, this picture appears to be a replacement part. it says in the caption of the photo that

"We will be adding two each anti-backing devices and a strip of rubber around the perimeter at the top of the angle."

if they don't do this until the competition then it would be perfectly legal, assuming that these are just replacement parts.

Actually they are not replacement parts, if you look they removed a couple of the angled sides from the platform and replaced them with a strait side. it's not replacement part, it's a different part.

But it does not matter, I should have read farther down on the rules. Either way it took me reading this 3 times to completely understand it.

R22> During the “FIX-IT WINDOW” following each Regional Competition weekend: During this
period, all teams (not just those teams attending a Regional Competition) may utilize one or
two 5-hour FIX-IT-WINDOWS to manufacture SPARE, REPLACEMENT and UPGRADE
PARTS and develop software for their ROBOT at their home facility (not at the competition
site). The timing of these “FIX-IT WINDOWS” is at the discretion of the team, but all work
must be completed between the opening of the Competition (at 8:30 am on the Thursday
of the Competition weekend) and 8:30 am on the Thursday following the Competition
weekend. At the conclusion of a regional competition event, teams may take a limited
amount of broken or malfunctioning COMPONENTS or MECHANISMS back to their home
facility to make SPARE or REPLACEMENT PARTS. The purpose of this rule is to allow
teams to make critical repairs to existing parts to enable them to compete in following
events. The intent of this rule is not to have teams take their entire ROBOT back home and
make large-scale revisions or upgrades to the ROBOT. Teams may manufacture and/or
repair all the parts they want, but the amount of parts they can bring to the competition
event is limited (as specified in Rule <R31>).

As I understand this rule, teams that win in the first week regional and then go to nationals have a total of 50 hours that they are allowed to build UPGRADE parts for their robot, is that accurate?
I still think this is unfair.
now all I have to ask is how much does each platform weigh?