Is Q&A official?

[BigJ]

Originally Posted by Madison

A ref should not be allowed to overrule a Q&A response. In my mind, that is tantamount to changing the rules on a whim. Only NH gets to do that :/

I remain naively optimistic that FIRST will, someday, write rules that are not ambiguous and do not rely on any sort of subjective judgement by the officials.

I'm no game theory expert, but I'm not sure if you could ever cover all the possibilities of a real life game in a meaningful way without human judgement. That's what makes D&D with a group of friends way more fun than say, Halo