[jspatz1]

Most mentors I know would like to see an end to the withholding allowance. Six weeks is enough time to ask them to donate, without turning it into a 14 week build season. The competition has become somewhat of a copying excercise now rather than an original design competition as it used to be. The withholding was originally started when the new crio-based control system was introduced, to allow teams more time work with it. I've never known what the reasoning is behind continuing it.