The issue with this strategy is that you are limiting how far you can competitively go. I know that in middle school it's viable to use a non-meta bot that preforms simpler tasks. This however, won't fly once you go to high school divisions. If you go into worlds with anything that isn't as efficient or an improvement upon meta designs, you won't make it very far. Every non meta bot that came to world's was beaten and outplayed by competitive meta bots. The meta is the meta because it is the Most Efficient Tactic Available in the eyes of current competitors. There are non meta bots that preformed well but this is only due to them being able to do all tasks as efficiently as specialized bots. Take the DR4B that was the meta for ITZ. It was a mogo bot base with a highly efficient cone stacking subsystem built on top of it. This meant that it could preform both tasks with great efficiency. That is why it became the meta. Also, mogo bots WERE a regional meta often being higher ranking due to having high skills run potential. This, however didn't fly at worlds with the few remaining mogo bots being some of the lowest ranking bots in the comp.

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Yes, they do. They are just a bit too expensive for the team. These have most of the benefits of the star drive screws, but are cheaper.

We actually don’t use off-brand spacers. Some bigger hardware stores do sell the nylon spacers though.

Why thank you :)

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I'm not really sure what your state is up to then. In the Vex rulebook, rule part c says that "Robots are allowed the following additional “non-VEX” components... Any commercially available #4, #6, #8, M2, M2.5, M3 or M4 screw up to 2" long (nominal), and any commercially available nut and/or washer to fit these screws." It goes on from there, but if you want to see for yourself, the link to the manual is right here. content.vexrobotics.com/docs/vrc-turning-point/VRC-TurningPoint-GameManual-20180817.pdf If your state threatens to disqualify you, then I'd show them this rule and say that it's allowed in the official vex rulebook. I've seen refs make calls that contradict the rulebook, and then after being (politely) shown the rule, they have reversed their previous stance. I hope this helps, if you have anything else, feel free to let me know.

Im with Kepler, I have seen tons of non-vex screws, even plastic screws considered legal

I’m on a vex iq team and for a competition somebody threatened us that we would be disqualified because we have spacers for metal

Your state is trippin hard bro, like idk what them event organizers and refs are on 💀