[MeBeMe]

I don't have an issue with the ruling. But I do have an issue with the making such a significant ruling after the game release and without heavy broadcast of this ruling. I agree that several teams will only learn of this at their initial competition and a full season's worth of their effort will be for naught. We just learned this 5 days before our first league event and now have to rework our entire game strategy in these five days. I think this reflects poorly on the design committee for not recognizing this strategy before release and on FIRST for how it was communicated. If the design committee feels there is a flaw in the game, once released they should live with it for the season (ala 2015 FRC-matches at highest level were decided in the first fraction of a second in a match due to limited scoring resources). We might look into VEX and evaluate their communication and process control for the future years clubs.