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Re: Withholding Allowance

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Originally Posted by engunneer View Post
What is the purpose of bringing a unbagged practice bot to an event that can't be loaded in, and leaving it in the trailer? The only reason I can think of that isn't a big temptation to getting spare parts after load in: the trailer is the teams storage at the shop, and they don't have somewhere else to put them. I think that is unlikely to be the case for the majority of teams. I do hope they were not being used for spare parts at an event.
I think the biggest reason would be for the COTS parts. You don't want to pull your practice bot apart unless you have to, but also want to make sure you have spares in case things break. Best of both worlds