Re: BOM vs BAM

From: jakep_82 <82.jake_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 22:02:25 -0000

It's a tradition in that it's been a part of indoor since indoor has existed. Has anyone ever competed at the world champs with a "bought" model regardless of whether BOM rules existed in the early years? I doubt it.

--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "Mark F1diddler" <f1diddler@...> wrote:
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> --- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "john_kagan" <john_kagan@> wrote:
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> <<or by setting the BOM threshold to allow built VP hubs, we are removing a traditionally important aspect of the activity.>>
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> Agree, but even tradition is partly an aesthetic, emotional thing hard to codify into rules--such as, tradition that reaches back how far? We sometimes mean, "the way things wuz five years ago!" :^)
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> If FAI does clarify to allow pre-built VPs, perhaps a new improved AMA BOM may be our last bastion of (close to) good 'ole tradition. But I assume AMA F1d will have to defer to whatever FAI says regardless of whatever AMA BOM rule exists.
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