[Jacob Bendicksen]

I agree - it's a little unclear what G10 really means.

If it's referring to simply taking too long to set up your robot (and I have a hunch that's what the GDC was going for), then that's to be expected - if one team is causing the whole event to run late, then perhaps they should be disabled for a match. However, if a team is, through its actions, causing the refs and other field personnel to hold matches to ensure the robot's legality (what happened in Dallas), then it gets fuzzier.

In some ways, it would be good for this rule to apply even then, as it would force teams to make robots that are easily proven to be safe and within the rules. However, in other ways, it would stifle creativity - many robots every year are right up against the legal limit, and if teams thought they could be disabled for an almost-illegal-but-not-quite robot, the amount of variety in robot designs would decrease significantly.

So yes - it would be nice to see a clarification on G10.

EDIT: a few people ninja'd me. I think the clarification is necessary as to who held the match up - the team, via their actions setting up the robot, or the field crew, checking that the robot was within the rules.