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Re: Best Robot Desktop Photos

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Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi View Post
I've heard the Poofs machine their wheels late in the season....sometimes very late. Never heard the full story either though.
We have a large stockpile of wheels from previous seasons, so usually the exact dimensions and interface of wheel we want to use is available for testing/practicing. As such, we only need to manufacture the competition-legal ones just in time to compete, since they're pretty light and easily fit within the witholding allowance.

Karthik was pretty disgusted last year when I told him at a Week 3 regional we were both attending that we hadn't started manufacturing any wheels yet.
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