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Re: Withholding limits and GP
I really don't see why people are angry that teams want to use the witholding allowance FIRST gave them. It's not like they went "BUT BUT YOU CAN HOLD BACK 65 POUNDS" and showed up at a regional with an empty crate and expected to make it through. These guys did not lawyer the rules! They did the right thing. They saw the new rule, thought "oh, maybe it means we can do this", then asked the GDC if that was okay and got an all clear.
You're honestly mad at teams for using the Q&A to figure out if something was legal, then being told it was and planning accordingly?
They have every right to be extremely upset with whatever complete 180 FIRST is doing. I mean, obviously they were "only" planning on it for a week, but they still planned around it. And now there's not enough time to ask how much they have to ship to consider "the robot" shipped.
FYI: What's in 2791's crate is not enough to operate on field as is, just like last year which was completely legal then. Did we not ship a ROBOT then, since we held back our electronics board? Who's to say, with an update that appeared the day of ship, after we sealed our crate?
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