[aldaeron]

Standard disclaimer that I am not the GDC and therefore this is only an opinion.

Are you releasing a large chuck of code that you have been working on for a while? If so, publish what you have when the broadcast starts and post an update to git after you finish working on the same set of code.

If you are starting to write something new starting a few hours before kickoff to then use on the robot, I wonder if you could wait a few hours and see what the game is. Perhaps the code you are writing is not needed. I understand the desire to kill some time while waiting for the video to air.

My reading of the intent of the rule is to prevent a team from doing a few months of code development in private and get a huge leg up in the offseason. A few hours of code the morning of kickoff would probably be seen as negligible. Ultimately it is up to you to self report that you followed R13 (no one can really tell) so do what is ethical and in the spirit of GP.

-matto-