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Originally Posted by bduddy
"Common sense" should very rarely have to come into play when reading a rulebook.
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Would you rather the rule book turn into one used for most motor sports and state something like:
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If the rules do not explicitly say that you CAN do something, then you CANNOT.
As a participant in several different motor sports disciplines over the years, I know that I wouldn't as that would pretty much turn FRC into a spec-bot competition and you might as well not have a build season. The KOP would be the entire bot, build using the step-by-step instructions. The team with the best driver wins, assuming it isn't fully autonomous at that point. Not to mention the thread count on CD was grow exponentially due to the complaining...
I don't think it is hard at all to just follow the guidelines in the rule book with some common sense and stop trying to look for little holes to exploit. The referee penalty list is a great example of the "feature creep" that happens in a white list rule book.
I think the biggest problem is that way too many teams have engineers and mentors doing most of the actual build to the point where during inspections, the kids kepp turning to the adults present because the kids didn't have a clue as to what the functions were of the various systems when asked by the inspector (me for one event this year). I personally think only students should be allowed in the inspection area just like the question box, but that is for another post.