[dtengineering]

Sorry... I should have specified that at the time the question was asked, the question was based on a 40 pound robot. The 40 pound witholding limit was in place at the start of the build season, and teams could have planned on keeping 40 pounds of fabricated mechanisms and components, in total comprising their robot, as their witholding limit.

I can see how the increase in the witholding limit changes the cost/benefit ratio of building a lightweight robot, and am not quite as enthusiastic about allowing teams to withold a 65 pound robot as I am allowing them to withold a 40 pound robot, but would still support the concept... but can also appreciate why others might not.

I think the good thing is that we now have a clear precedent for future years, and teams will be aware that the rule requiring them to ship a robot supersedes the rule allowing them to withold a certain mass of components and mechanisms.

Of course... rules do change from year to year.

Jason