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Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi
Why? I'm personally a huge fan of the withholding allowance. It allowed our team to do a ton of iteration.
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As jspatz1 said, it prevents copycatting, but it also gives mentors (and students!) a break. Even if you keep a practice robot, you're not redesigning entire systems for the weeks (and weeks and weeks) between competitions.
I know it sounds weird, but as I get older, I have a harder and harder time working ten-to-fourteen 100+ hour weeks in a row. (The Redhead(tm) also isn't a big fan of the withholding allowance. When I started FIRST, she was only alone for six and a half weeks straight.)