The way we interpreted the rules, you can bring 30 pounds of withholding to your first regional, and another 30 pounds to your second regional. Is this correct? If no, please provide an answer and explicit ruling as to why.
This would be bringing 30 separate pounds to each regional, not 60 in one.
that is indeed a good question.
Being that we never had to do that in the past, I’m curious myself.
I’ve seen teams who participated in their 2nd or later regional event bring in parts of their robot fabricated again at a later event.:rolleyes:
Teams may bring a maximum of 30 lbs of Fabricated Items to each competition event to be used to repair and/or upgrade their Robot at the competition site. The Operator Console and any battery assemblies (see [R03]-A) are not applicable. (emphasis mine)
**[R26]**Teams may bring a maximum of **30 lbs of Fabricated Items **to each competition event to be used to repair and/or upgrade their Robot at the competition site.
Emphasis mine.
I can see how my post was written poorly in a stupor of English homework. I was implying you can’t take 60 pounds of stuff to the regional because you signed up for 2, but you can bring two new 30-pound loads (let’s say you built an all new shooter but didn’t take anything home after the first event). We just take our board and camera for testing.
If you are implying that this practice is illegal, we just switched two Spikes over to Victors to upgrade control on some motors and recut some wires that had bad crimps. However, it is a bunch of COTS parts that have been bolted on to some Lexan.
I hope that something we have done years in the past is illegal.
Q. If a COTS item is mounted to an assembly of fabricated components, is the item still considered COTS if it is otherwise unmodified? (ie, no mounting holes drilled in it)
A. No. Mounting a COTS item into an assembly is considered modifying it, making it a Fabricated Item. If the COTS item was removed from the larger assembly and otherwise unmodified, it would be considered a COTS item.
emphasis mine
So if you have not included the weight of these items in your withholding allowance then it may have been illegal.
But we did, which is why I specifically used that as the example for the fabricated item we use for our withholding allowance. I wonder why this was indirectly brought up in the first place.
[R26]Teams may bring a maximum of 30 lbs of Fabricated Items to each competition event to be used to repair and/or upgrade their Robot at the competition site.