Spare Parts - What FIRST Had to Say

[Bill Gold]

A) From team update 6 and message 767, You will have to ship all the spare parts after the 6 weeks build period, to make sure teams stop building after the time limit. For the first regional your team attend, you may not bring any spart parts you build after 6-weeks. So, Extra supplies mean hand tools, raw material, fasteners, and other things you need in the Pit area.

After the first regional, however, you may bring to the next competition the spare/new parts you manufactured between right after regional and the Wednesday midnight following that weekend (about 4 days) along with the extra supplies.

-FIRST KL

I read this also... then I went and read all of Update #6, and message 767. I couldn't find anything that says that you must ship spare parts made during the "6 weeks" to the first event your team attends. As far as I can see, this is the first time that shipping of spare parts made during the 6-week build has been talked about.

Does this mean that teams aren't allowed to make practice robots (since practice robot components could possibly be used as spare parts)? Any ideas people?