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Originally Posted by Rickertsen2

Please don't hang me for speaking against the institution here. Does anybody else think FIRST is doing a poor job with the Q&A? There are alot of ambiguous rules this year that really need some clarification. Can they not take half an hour to deal with some of the important questions?

By all means, if you think there are ambiguous rules don't hesitate to ask them on CD. If they are not answerable here, then ask your team leader to post them in Q/A. FIRST has asked that students not be allowed to post in Q/A system.

I also agree that the GDC did a great job with the rules. I've mentioned it several times since the rules came out that they are extremely well written, clear, and cover just about all the ambiguous-ness there could have been. I have noticed that they tried to take into account prior year confusions and loopholes and address them in the rules. I think it's great.

FIRST has also kept teams up to date on the status of their Q/A system and let them know they were working on it. It was open previously but not working according to the way they wanted it. I also agree that it's useful to keep Q/A closed at least for a few days after kickoff so that everyone can let the rules sink in.

And is it just me or does it seem like there are a LOT less rule questions/confusions on CD at this time than there has been in previous years? That right there tells me there's very few areas to find loopholes.