It's late, I'm tired
, I have a head cold, so here's some more questions that aren't covered when it comes to the COTS laptop:
1. If the COTS laptop contacts extraterrestrial life with SETI during the competition does that team get extra points?
2. What safe guards are provided for the COTS laptop to prevent it from being infected by an intelligent living digital program from outer space and taking over the machine shop to build copies of itself to put tubes on every telephone pole in America? Do we get extra points for that as long as no one gets hurt and wears the proper safety gear?
3. Is it a violation of Gracious Professionalism to load Dr. Sbaitso on the COTS laptop and have it provide unlicensed psychotherapy to various humans and other robots?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Sbaitso
4. Will all the tubes in all the competitions get a bonus if the robot goes into space, gets upgraded by aliens and returns to Earth to complete it's mission by placing a huge 'ubertube' in orbit around the Earth's equator? Must that tube hold atmospheric pressure to qualify? Since it'll probably forget part of it's name, how can we properly identify it?
5. Will we get a penalty if a black monolith interferes with our COTS laptop operation by exerting an evolutionary effect on it? Can we prevent the penalty by removing the laptop as it sings..."Daisy...Daisy...D...A...I...S..."
There's other mentors out there reading this and I bet they'll have to explain the humor to someone.