The cheesecake runaway

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by BrendanB

Not sure if this would hold up. We used two bags for our robot this year at our first event with our robot in the first bag and in the second we had two of our spare upright tubes (2" square aluminum tube .063in wall 72" long) along with a few smaller miscellaneous items. All in all it weighed under 10lbs but we put it in the bag in case our witholding needed to be larger than its current 15lbs that we brought in.

As we left the event the inspectors saw it differently so we went back to one bag and used these parts as our witholding allowance since we didn't use much from event to event.

Pretty sure your inspectors were wrong. The withholding allowance rule says you have to bag all robot elements, including those used in alternate configurations of the robot. Admin section 5 also says you're allowed up to 2 bags in case you need to disassemble your robot. So I don't see a problem with two bags, and I don't see a problem with bagged robot elements. If we're nitpicking that the bagged parts aren't actually part of the robot because they're spares, that seems perverse and unnecessary.