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Originally Posted by EricH
P.S.: For anybody ANSWERING rules questions, please, please, please put the rule number in your post, so that others can track it down! Quoting the rule verbatim is also a good idea--but then others won't have the fun of finding it in the Manual and maybe noticing some other rule that affects their design.  |
I suggest you not base decisions on anyone who answers that "they think the manual says XXXXX", and doesn't quote the manual. I cannot state strongly enough that opinions on CD are merely that and the Q&A is only legal response to a question. For newcomers and rookies alike, there will be frequent updates (at least weekly) that modify the manual sections. Robot Inspectors, refs and judges will be using the latest changes at your event.
While this happens every year, I have a hard time telling a team that their assembly was ruled illegal in Team update #16 only to find out that they had faithfully copied and bound all team updates except #16. Thanks Eric for starting this thread. Teams if you have specific questions that you think may compromise your strategy, you may PM me for an opinion until such time as the Q&A is answered. While the Q&A team tries to respond quickly, correct answers are important to them. That may require more input from the team before a response is made public. Please be patient.