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Re: What's going in your Withholding Allowance?

i've noticed the GDC for many years tends to give very non-committal answers, but its been especially bad this year. They always say "we can't make comments on individual robot designs" well, make a comment. Say something like "for this to be legal, you would have to..." or what have you. I'm sick and tired of the guessing game they've led us on. Is this the bumper rule? no. is this? no. why not just say "no. THIS is the bumper rule". Admittedly, there are Q&A askers out there who just refuse to ASSUME some things about the way the rules are written and go based on INTENT. Those people ask so many questions about every permutation of interpretations of the rules and force the GDC into a corner, but the GDC needs to say No, you're being silly. Stop asking questions that you should automatically know the answer to. and when they get backed into a corner like that (say, with this battery issue) they need to say Oh, well, the way the rules are written is NOT what we intended, so here's a modification that FIXES the rule to be the way we intended it.

EDIT: I've been around FIRST since 2003, and every year, they tell us to stop lawyering the rules and go based on intent, and every year the problem seems to get worse and worse.
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