Corey's got it exactly. Neither us, the teams, NOR the GDC, are using the Q&A correctly. If you ask me, I think our OVERUSE of the Q&A stems from the GDC's tendency of late to make ludicrous calls, like this one. They've always told us to follow the intent, and not the letter of the rules, but yet, when we grill them on it, they seem to respond based on the letter of the rules and not the intent. We need to stop asking questions like the one that caused this whole debacle about whether a battery + cables = NON-COTS. Every team I've ever seen bring batteries to a competition had connectors on their batteries. You have to put a connector on the battery in order to use it, and presumably you used them during build to practice with. The rules explicitly state that you're ALLOWED to bring your batteries to competition with you, so why would you EVER consider taking the connectors off of them, it just doesnt make sense.
EDIT: I meant screaming in a metaphorical sense, not literally
EDIT2: The post count comment was purely meant to be used as a measure of how upset people are about this topic, not that the GDC would use that, just to demonstrate that there are lots of people upset, and understandably so.