Withholding Allowance

[marshall]

Originally Posted by MrBasse

Reading section 5.2 in the admin manual clearly calls out "the robot" and even says the two bag concept is specifically for disassembling the robot for ease
of transport. So the 120 lb limit is a part of what I'm getting at. The competition robot has a weight limit, and at stop build you bag the robot. Nothing in there says bag anything and everything you've built to that point.

Did they build the whole thing there from COTS components? The way I read it was they brought an assembled group of components.

I'm just looking for clarity on this, this has potential to be either a learning opportunity for a select few or a missed opportunity for a whole lot of teams.

If you actually want clarity then seek it from FIRST and not CD... I do agree with you though, the rules are about as clear as mud here... Though the people I spoke with (that have opinions I value) all agreed with our interpretation of the rules. We bagged one item that once inspected became a ROBOT and one really well constructed set of spare parts.

But you do bring up a good point! We did not bag our bumpers per R15:

Originally Posted by R15

All ROBOT elements (including items intended for use during the competition in alternative configurations of the ROBOT), with the exception of the WITHHOLDING ALLOWANCE per R18, BUMPERS, and COTS items, must be bagged and sealed, by 11:59PM local time on Stop Build
Day, February 23, 2016 (refer to the Admin Manual Section 5 (5.3 Instructions for “Bag and Tag”).

But the ROBOT clearly includes BUMPERS:

Originally Posted by R1

The ROBOT must include all of the basic systems required to be an active participant in the game – power, communications, control, BUMPERS, and movement.

So we must have violated that rule too! The admin manual says "robot" and not "ROBOT" and the two are different...