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Originally Posted by EricH
A comprehensive and complete rulebook does not cover every situation, as not every situation is foreseeable. A comprehensive and complete rulebook lays down the rules as they are to be called, and some guidelines on what would likely be called in a hypothetical situation (say, high contact between robots). It is loose enough that the referees can give grace in situations they are not sure about (ball under robot, after Week 1), but tight enough that if a robot breaks a rule, it gets called (contact with a robot contacting its own tower)..
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exactly. being a soccer referee, a lot of responsibility is put in your hands and there's a lot of interpretation to go along with it. Still, as a referee, I think it's better to have a loose, but flexible rulebook, rather than a strict and rigid one. The rulebook can't account for every situation, and it shouldn't have to.