[Chris Hibner]

As much as the FIRST powers-that-be would like to tell everyone to "quit being lawyers with the rules" and "look at the rule intent", this clarification is a perfect example that lawyer-type scrutiny of the rules is a necessity unless you want to do a last minute redesign. I think a lot of teams looked at the intent of this rule and got burned.

Overall, I thought FIRST did a great job with the rules this year - very simple and very clear for the most part. However, something is always going to fall through the cracks (and I don't mean that in a bad way - people need to know that it's practically impossible to do something perfectly).