What's going in your Withholding Allowance?

[Eric O]

The GDC has clarified a bit...I think. While I think this individual response is fairly clear, it definitely contradicts some of the other Q&A posts on this topic.

http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread.php?t=12033

So, I looks like any KOP or COTS item in "out of the box" condition are the only things not counted. This "out of the box" condition is new to me, as Fabricated to me is different than wear and specifying "out of the box" to me excludes both fabrication and wear.

The Good: From this post I would include the cRio as not included as long as you bring it in it’s out of the box form. (Nothing else attached)

The Bad: Nothing is all that bad. We get to bring in 40lbs of stuff made at any time.

The Ugly: No matter when you wired them, any motor with leads/connectors that you bring to the event is counted toward your 40lbs. I know that some teams would normally bring a lot of spare motors. They must understand that this now counts toward their 40lbs.