You were correct to stop a teammate from using another team’s design by taking a photo and making trivial change of one material that had no impact on the successful design of the other team.
Your teammate wants the success without the work. That team put effort in coming up with the design - they figured out the size, materials and configuration to make it work.
I remind teams that G4 goes down reusing past subsystems from another team from previous season.
Here are three Q&A about skill level violations:
Note NONE of these example violations are whole hole for hole copies of robots - just not putting the effort to come up with your own design and robot representing your skill level - including use of tools (fabrication and coding).
@60_Percent_C_Channel you have brought to light a whole slew of issues in V5RC that if addressed by all teams will level the playing field fairly under the Game Manual rules.
Thank you.