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Re: Withholding rules
It might be too late to design your robot AROUND the withholding allowance, but we did that for the past two years.

We used modular construction so that various components (the drive system, the "kicker", the "brain") could be bolted and unbolted easily from the robot chassis.

That allowed us to ship the robot, and then keep the systems that we needed to work on at home, either using a full practice chassis or a simpler mock up.

The withholding rule is one of the most significant rule advances in FRC during my time with the program and allows plenty of opportunities for teams to reduce the stress of build period if they think about the allowance from day 1.

Jason