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Re: Team Update #7
Whether or not Q&A rulings are official rules, there was a Q&A ruling early on that indicated you could not hang, remove, hang, remove, etc... with the same tube and have it count for multiple scores. So teams should at least have been aware that this strategy might be disallowed by a future update.
I completely agree with MrG's interpretation of the rule as originally written. A couple of our students brought this up during brainstorming on January 10. I told them we should be ready to play as if it were an allowable strategy, but that I bet it would be disallowed.
In game design, play testing is one of the most important and most time consuming parts of the process. Unfortunately for us, there is no real way to completely play test the game before they release it. So there are going to be rules which are unclear, or in this case say something not intended. I always try to plan on the spirit of the rules being enforced, but pay attention to the Q&A and updates. More so if we are looking at strategies that are unorthodox.
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