[boomergeek]

"There is nothing in the shipping or WITHHOLDING ALLOWANCE rules that limit how many pounds of ROBOT you ship"

I think it is clear that shipping 3 whole 120 lb robots (still under 400 lbs) breaks the spirit of the how much fabricated material that is available to a team at the competition site.

A team can't ship both a practice bot and their production bot and then give their practice bot to another team to use in competition.
(They possibly can do that if they give the practice robot away to the other team and the other team ships it as their robot before the shipping deadline.)

If a team on Thursday shows up to inspection with a 115 lb robot and then on Friday shows up for reinspection with 60 pounds of different fabricated parts, then does the inspector have the obligation to ask if the fabricated parts came from a reasonable interpretation of the withholding allowance for that specific team or whether they came from fabrication outside of the competition site (or a bunch of non-replacement fabricated parts that were shipped within the 400 lb shipping limit)?

I'm just looking for a reasonable interpretation of the spirit of the rules...

Prior to competition, can a team fabricate minibot deployment parts with the express intent of giving to another team to use?

Is there any limit on weight of fabricated items other teams to use?
(If you have a 60 lb drivetrain module design, can you ship five instances of the drivetrain and try to convince other teams to replace their drivetrains with yours?)

(I would not think so).

If the drivetrain scenario is not be consistent with the intent of the rules, then why would prefabricating minibot deployers for other teams be within the rules?