[JohnSchneider]

Think about it from FIRSTs side. Obviously this is not in the "spirit of FIRST" so as FIRST what are your options to stop people from building their own alliance partners?

1) You could extend withholding weight to include COTS parts. Which hurts everyone.

2) You aren't allowed to bag 2 robots, but what if they bag all the parts to make a robot? Now FIRST has to say "You can only bag your robot and no other parts"

3) A plausible solution could be to include a maximum financial cost on withholding, COTS and bagged parts to ensure that a second robot cannot come in while allowing you to have spares for yourself.

All 3 of these solutions would hurt teams as the FIRST metagame stands now. Is it really worth opening that can of worms?