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Originally Posted by cad321
How does the 30lb out of bag limit work with the 2 day events? What would stop a team from making, say a 35lb mechanism that they attatched during their 6 hours of open bag time prior to the event, and then resealing the bag and going to competition? Is this an honours system where competitors aren't to add more than 30lbs, or perhaps another advantage to the district model?
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R18 defines this very clearly. In terms of enforcement, it is the honor system. Note the last line in the second paragraph of the rule, if you fabricate something during the six hours, it does not count towards your withholding allowance. That combined with some other tricks (such as removing motors from assemblies to return them to their COTS state and putting them back on at the competition) means that you can rebuild a pretty significant amount of your robot between events.
