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Re: What's going in your Withholding Allowance?
The problem is that someone asked a question of the GDC which pointed out how our batteries as we've brought them to the competitions for years are NOT COTS. The GDC then responded based on that knowledge that we can't do it that way based on the way the rules are written. The problems with the rules only make themselves known when people point them out. The thing that has caused all this outrage, is that instead of FIXING the rule to match what the INTENT was, by excluding batteries with anderson connectors attached (like in the battery + its half of connector is NOT part of robot weight rule), from the COTS/Withholding business, the GDC has decided to just respond based on this as is. They could have responded to the effect of: "Oh, you're right, the rules as written DO make that illegal, however, that was not our intent, and as such, we will be releasing a team update in the coming (hours/days/decades) that fixes this, so that the letter of the rule more closely matches our intent." But they didnt.
EDIT: Note: I'm not saying I don't think they will release an update fixing this, but they shouldn't have made a Q&A response which says "Yes, this is Illegal", knowing full well that they're going to release an update that fixes it.
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