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Originally Posted by Oblarg
It seems to me that this is a fundamental problem with the consistency of the rules; if they can't give reasonable rulings of this nature during the Q&A session, how are they supposed to do it at competition? Do they really think the inconvenience of hampering the Q&A process outweighs the inconvenience of teams showing up with illegal designs which they could not have possibly known were going to be illegal?
Obviously, a picture can be flawed, and the judgment given based on a flawed picture will be flawed. That said, is the proper way to address that really to take a blanket approach of "we will not give rulings on the legality of specific designs?" I think that this cannot possibly be the best solution.
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I think that it (unfortunately) has to be the way. It keeps the Q&A 'clean'/simple; you don't want to see Q&A's possibly contradicting themselves. And, if they reviewed/responded to pictures, I'm sure we'd see at least one instance of a team taking the (similar) design, not copying it exactly, and trying to use the Q&A response as a defense.
Basically, I feel that the line should be drawn at analyzing pictures/actual designs. Obviously, in the case of 118, that was a fault of the GDC's in my opinion, because the GDC didn't expand on the definition of "grab, grasp, grapple".
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Originally Posted by tondogone
On usfirst it says that it will be released on January 4th. I remember downloading it in the morning last year.
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That's the manual in the non-pdf form; hopefully tomorrow or Friday they'll release the encrypted PDF to download beforehand when the manual servers get slowed down(which they usually do). And hopefully this incoming NE snowstorm doesn't hurt that...