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Originally Posted by Chris is me
What is in your trailer isn't illegal at all - what FIRST did was make the withholding allowance defined at the beginning of the event. So you have to
"declare" what parts you'll be using and bring them in with you. Nothing against, for example, getting a completely COTS part off of a practice robot in the trailer and bringing just the COTS part into the arena after unload.
What the rule change ends up prohibiting is teams going "well I'm using 5 lbs of withholding right now, and 25 lbs when Major Mechanism A breaks on Saturday afternoon and I can just go get another one."
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I think the blue box that year was very specific about the trailer practice but if someone is going to bust your chops for grabbing a Talon off your pbot they probably need to be checked in somewhere.