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Re: The Robonauts 118 - 2012 Video

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik View Post
Many teams will be upset if it's ruled legal? So you think it should be illegal because your personal team thought it was and passed on it?
I never said what you imply. Our team believes it violates the rule on grappling. However, I also clearly stated that is only our opinion.

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik View Post
Your argument that it should be illegal because you think many teams will be upset holds no weight whatsoever.
I never said that either. I stated that I personally believe it violates the rule on grappling. I said that many teams will be upset if it is ruled legal.

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik View Post
Don't get me wrong here. You're perfectly justified in being annoyed that the GDC has yet to offer a clear ruling on this design.
And that is exactly the point I made. Unlike pretty much every other year, this question has been asked fairly clearly since week 1 of the build season. The GDC has avoided answering it indirectly and directly because of their refusal to deal with hypotheticals. I do not understand their reticence and refusal to clarify this rule. It's like they are DARING teams to take the chance, so that they can spring a surprise answer on FIRST during the first week of competitions. I'm sure that's not their intent, but that's where this is leading.