No Change Rule Yields More Openness

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Posted by P.J. Baker at 02/25/2001 2:24 PM EST


Engineer on team #177, Bobcat Robotics, from South Windsor High School and International Fuel Cells.


In Reply to: Changes
Posted by Bill Beatty on 02/25/2001 12:57 PM EST:



Bill & Raul,

Prior to rereading Update #3, I was with Raul and thought that you could make whatever you wanted at an event or until 5 p.m. on the Tuesday after. Now I'm not sure. The last paragraph of M19 reads:

"This rule is intended to allow teams to fabricate replacements for parts damaged or otherwise not functioning properly at an event. It is our hope that this will allow all teams to keep their robots functioning through a series of events. We will rely upon your gracious professionalism to not continue fabrication of new parts past the shipping deadlines."

It would seem that FIRST's intent is allow you to modify existing systems on your machine, but not to add new ones. So, adding and arm that was never there would be precluded. However, the phrase "not functioning properly" is open to interpretation. I would take it to mean that any system that was actually in the crate with you're machine last Tuesday at 5 could be COMPLETELY redesigned until 5 p.m. on the Tuesday after the event.

Any other thoughts on this rule?

P.J.
Team # 177