So say you are using rubber bands for your roller intake, but you don’t have easy access to VEX CERTIFIED rubber bands.(probably $20 per tiny pack of them) Has anyone ever not passed inspection because of this? As long as they are generally the same size, to my understanding a component is still considered vex identical if it is a different color, nothing to worry about? (of course nothing would ever happen at local tournaments, you will be lucky if the inspectors/referees even know what ITZ is) but if our team gets to worlds, I am not sure how much they inspect robots there. I have heard inspectors are a lot more strict at worlds.
probably the stupidest question ever, but hey I thought I would ask it anyway.
You just need to use the same size rubber bands, the colour or company doesn’t matter.
Our robot actually has rubber bands that are not the orange VEX Certified ones and we passed inspection.
And when we went to worlds last year, we were using VEX Certified rubber bands, but I saw a lot of other teams with rubber bands identical to the ones that VEX sells, but not the same colour.
And I saw the teams playing in matches, so they passed inspection alright with rubber bands that are not VEX Certified.