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Originally Posted by Ian Curtis
It all just seems a little bit silly. We have a 6 week build season because FIRST "likes us", but we have to build an entire second robot to have adequate practice time, and then to actually bring spares or upgrades to an event we need to fabricate another 1/3 of our robot or disassemble and reassemble our robot after every event?
To clarify, its okay for any team to bring their practice robot, so long as they write out a list of which parts they are declaring as part of their withholding allowance?
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In my opinion that would be okay, provided that the team could prove that those parts weigh less than 45lbs.
The 45lbs of witholding allowance isn't allowing you to use up to 45lbs of any pre-fab stuff, it's that you can
bring up to 45 of pre-fab stuff. So, conceivably, you have to plan that allowance out
Bringing a practice robot and stripping any <45lbs of stuff off it isn't the same as having to have brought <45lbs of stuff with you from the start. This is the core difference of interpretation that most people are having here. I think that FIRST intends for us to have pre-selected that 45lbs of stuff, but Q&A is the only way to clarify this. Again, everyone is under the honor system in this rule, especially teams based at (or near) event venues.