It's important to note that the sixty second guideline (not rule) is in a blue box. The standard blue box disclaimer makes them somewhat useless. The referee can always tell you that a rule takes precedence and can ignore the blue box legally. The same goes for any q and a response that doesn't make it into a team update.
At the beginning of the manual, this disclaimer about blue boxes is posted inside of a blue box.
Quote:
Warnings, cautions and notes appear in blue boxes. It is strongly recommended that you pay close attention to their contents as they’re intended to provide
insight into the reasoning behind a rule, helpful information on understanding or interpreting a rule, and/or possible “best practices” for use when implementing
systems affected by a rule.
While blue boxes are part of the manual, they do not carry the weight of the actual rule (if there is an inadvertent conflict between a rule and its blue box, the
rule supersedes the language in the blue box).
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This weakens the power of the blue box significantly. In addition, the blue box has 60 seconds as a guideline.
A team may delay the start of the match, even if it takes them less than 60 sixty seconds to set up. If the match would have normally started 30 seconds after the robots were placed on the field (not likely), and you force them to wait sixty seconds, you have delayed the match. If you do this twice, it's a repeated delay.