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Re: Last year's kit frame

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Originally Posted by EricVanWyk View Post
I read it as:

You can not take the IFI kit-frame out of your 2008 robot and use it as your 2009 frame. You can take an unused/untouched/unmodified 2008 IFI kit-frame and use it as your 2009 frame.

The implication is that modifying a COTS item makes it a custom item.

Is my interpretation correct?
That's how I wanted to read it as well, but that's definitely not how the GDC response is worded.

"The 2008 kit-bot chassis was custom-made for the 2008 FRC competition."

The restriction against using it on this year's robot follows from that simple declaration, not from a distinction between "unmodified COTS" and "modified".