[roboruler]

Look I feel that the way they communicated the new ruling was fine. There was the clause in the Game Manual that allowed this and this strategy was pushing the boundaries, even the RI3D teams expressed their expectation that this strategy would be restricted.

There was plenty of time to change strategy and redesign.

It would not be a good season at all if all the events were just won by robots with basically no driveteam interaction and just kept cycling with two motors. Heck, the robot didn't even need to be able to drive to be able to do this.

Even in FRC certain strategies or mechanisms are ruled illegal after teams have spent a lot of time developing them. You need to consider if your strategy will break the game.