[Alpha 997]

Originally Posted by Cory

You are purchasing a finished assembly--an entire drive system.

We're talking about two different rules. You're talking about manufacturing costs. I'm talking about the fact that you cannot buy a completed subassembly under the 2007 robot rules, which is exactly what these tracks are.

Actually these tracks are completely legal, we made sure of that. I don’t know about any other team, but for us, we did not purchase the track from outback. $1200 is the estimate for the cost of the material that made up the tracks, not how much we paid outback for the tracks. Outback, as our sponsor, then machined the track parts out of the material that we provided. They gave us the pieces that they machined, and then we assembled it together. We did not purchase anything from Outback. The AndyMark transmission were bought separately.