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Originally Posted by Matt H.
Where have you found this hierarchy of power which you reference? I have found no statement which says the manual supersedes the Q&A and it would seem much more logical that the Q&A supersedes the manual. Similarly the rules you mention only refer to teleoperated mode so the manual is not clear on the subject.
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not in the manual. But Paul is basing that order of precedence on the one which was circulated a couple years ago, and which is generally used by the officials to this day, in the absence of an official statement.
But like Travis says, FIRST is doing a poor job of managing rule changes and updates. Effectively, officials need to be aware of two sometimes-disparate interpretations: what the most recent rules say, and what the Q&A says. (And before someone cops out with a comment about how FIRST is not composed of awyers, and therefore can't be expected to spend time on minutiae like this, I'll just point out that managing rule changes is just like version control—which is typically an engineering function.)