asking first questions

[Gope]

I don't know how they plan to do it, but I hope they find a better way because e-mail and yahoogroups are both not very effective. I think an offical rule book should be posted on their website(in html format) and updated immediatly when they change or tweak a rule. I also think that there should be a deadline for major rule changes(5 weeks into the build period a rule change could devestate a team).

I also hope that they are stronger with the rules. Last year they said "no tape measures for extendy arm things" and when regionals come around they said "well, so many teams have tape measures that we're gona let them use them, its a shame to let their work go to waste." My team had a joke about putting a chainsaw on our robot, maybe our work wouldn't go to waste either...It just reall bothered me that because alot of teams broke very obvious rules very openly that Dean simply changed the rule, I really hope this dosen't happen again.