[boomergeek]

Can teams close to home use their fabrication capability outside of the competition site during Thursday through Saturday? I would not think so.
Withholding applies to everyone and I thought it meant material can be brought in Thursday. No fabricated material can be brought in or out between Thursday and Saturday. COTs and raw materials can be brought in any time during competition and worked on during open pit times.

Fabrication outside the competition site and during the Thursday through Saturday time frame, either "in the hotel" or at the home base facility does not seem consistent with the intent of the rules.

I could be misinterpreting.

The "home" teams only advantage should be knowing where to get COTs locally.