A COTS item becomes a fabricated item when you do something to it that changes it noticeably. If the fabricated item is not going to be part of your robot, the holdback restriction does not apply. Any items, fabricated or COTS, that are not part of your robot do not need to be bagged on stop-build day (unless you want to). This leaves you the responsibility to bring fabricated things like your driver station, a battery cart, a robot cart, or your pit-area furniture to each of the competitions you're attending along with your bagged robot.
I've read this three times now, and I've got a lot of other things on my mind for the 24 hours coming up. My apologies in advance for inadvertent errors, if they've been included. [/fake signature]
