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Re: Team Update #7

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Originally Posted by mathking View Post
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.
We should all be aware that the rules of the game can change after week 1 regionals as well. In 2007 we saw the prestacking of robots disallowed. This eliminated a useful puropose for dead robots. Last year we saw the ball under robot penalty go away which benefited poorly designed robots. I believe last year the 469 game breaker strategy was officially asked in Q&A and allowed. While it is tough to let a secret strategy out of the bag, if it is questionable it is better to ask Q&A before it affects your whole design path.

You can win a week 1 regional with a questionable strategy but you cannot win a world championship with it if it is subsequently disallowed. Precedent says this can hapen (often).
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