[KenWittlief]

the only reason they are releasing the encrypted files early is so their server is not swamped at 10:01AM on saturday

950+ teams all trying to download 10 or 20MBytes of files at the same time

actually I dont need the manual for the first couple days anyway - our team will spend the first meeting or two analysizing the game, how you score points, to determine what our robot needs to do to score the most points under the worst case conditions

all we need for that is the description of the game, and how to calculate the score at the end.