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It seems this whole issue is the result of introducing the withholding allowance concept in the first place. Last year its rationale was to help deal with the new control system, and yet this year it is still there, and has even been increased to the point of creating the "whole robot" issue. If they have introduced technology that they feel cannot be dealt with in 6 weeks even in its second year, then they should increase the build season accordingly. The whole "withhold part of your robot" concept has become somewhat of a can of worms. There will always be new stuff in the KOP to get familiar with. There will always be some geographic areas that have winter weather during a winter build season. Perhaps we should just get back to having a robot build deadline as we used to. It was unambiguous.