[Jeff Pahl]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

Just for fairness and/or the sanity of inspectors.

Inspectors don't have any sanity. If we did, we'd be doing something else, like field reset.

My take on it at the moment is that they are considered KOP items. I really don't think it will be that big of a deal, in several years of inspecting I have only encountered one team that had an issue with the $3500 limit. And that was due to the 4 or 5 unused speed controllers they had not removed from the robot as they kept changing things. Once they removed the really expensive ballast, they were well below the limit.

Again, as others have said, the official answer will have to come from the Q & A, or probably in a team update. I expect this will be answered by the GDC well before 99.5% of teams even start on compiling their BOM.