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Rule <R08>, weight of upgrade parts

<R08> The maximum allowed weight of all robot configuration mechanisms combined, not including an Exide battery and its associated half of the Anderson cable quick connect/disconnect pair is 120 pounds (54.43 kg). At the time of weigh in, the basic robot structure and all elements of all additional mechanisms that might be used in different configurations of the robot must be weighed together. ....

Example 1) So, team SPAM comes to yet another competition with only half of their robot functional, and they weigh in at their standard 119.75 pounds. Through the practice rounds they decide that their 5 story megalift will never work, so they build from scratch in the pits an antigravity lift that seems to work OK, and between qualifying rounds 3&4 they remove the megalift, install the antigravity lift and get reweighed at 119.5 pounds. The lifts themselves weigh 20 pounds and 19.75 pounds respectively.

Question: Is this OK per rule <R08>, provided that they never put the megalift on again? The robot wasn't designed for interchangability, but they interchanged parts.

Example 2) Same as example 1, except the antigravity lift proves to be worse than the megalift so between qualifying rounds 5 & 6 they change back to the original configuration.

Question: Is this OK, - can we rely on gracious professionalism that the interchangability rule isn't being abused?

Example 3) The megalift only needs some tweaking, so they try replacing a steel widget with an aluminum widget between matches 3&4, then try a PVC widget between matches 4&5, then try a bronze widget between matches 5&6. All the upgrade widgets are built at the competition and weigh about 3 pounds.

Question: Is this OK?

I think if we weighed together all the stuff we built and tried and replaced throughout previous competitions we'd have a 500# robot.
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