Conflicting Rules?

[jee7s]

FRC/GDC is really after preventing off season code development with these rules. They don't want you cutting and pasting code onto your robot that you developed in the many months before kickoff.

Think of it like a fabricated item...you can't use anything made before kickoff on your robot. That doesn't mean you can't be inspired by a design you made in past years or in the off season. Likewise, just as you can build some parts after ship date because the rules say you can, you can also develop code in the same way, because the rules say you can.

The rules don't conflict (if you ask me). The "approved fabrication period" is both the build season and the time between events.