Frank Answers Fridays: July 12, 2013: Question about Q&A

[Michael Hill]

Originally Posted by Pault

2. There could be a situation where the head ref is going to straight out deny the legitimacy of the Q&A, or refuse to take it into consideration. Mr. Merrick is saying that this can happen, and teams just need to deal with it. And the reasoning behind this is that FIRST needs to draw the line somewhere as to who has the final say in rulings. The game manual and Q&A cannot make decisions at a competition, because they are just words. And the GDC can't make decisions everytime a team at a competition wants them to, because they simply don't have the time and it's not their job. So FIRST has designated the head referee as the supreme judge of all situations at his/her regional.

Yeah, if a ref does this, s/he is a terrible ref. Just telling the truth.