new GDC reply
http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread.php?t=14773
I'm going to quote some definitions here.
WITHHOLDING ALLOWANCE – A limited amount of FABRICATED ITEMS that are withheld from the ROBOT shipping requirements (specified in Section 4) and retained by the team following the shipping deadlines.
FABRICATED ITEM – Any COMPONENT or MECHANISM that has been altered, built, cast, constructed, concocted, created, cut, heat treated, machined, manufactured, modified, painted, produced, surface coated, or conjured partially or completely into the final form in which it will be used on the ROBOT.
COMPONENT – A ROBOT part in its most basic configuration, which can not be disassembled without damaging or destroying the part, or altering its fundamental function.
What does it mean to conjure an item into the final form in which it will be used on the ROBOT? If you assemble some COTS parts to a fabricated part, is the assembly a FABRICATED ITEM now?