[IndySam]

Originally Posted by Mike Soukup

Considering that the Q&A is meant to clarify rules, not create them, the ruling that batteries with cables are non-COTS has always existed, so if we used our common sense to infer that batteries with cables were COTS we were unknowingly breaking the existing rules. The questions that teams have asked building up to this ruling have been attempts to clarify that our original common sense understanding was indeed correct and there were inconsistencies with the Q&A's responses, not the other way around.

The GDC doesn't just interpret the rules they write them. They could easily say that this is the letter of rule but it will be changed in the next update.

What they have ruled is totally insane.