Annual Reminder--Please Read the Manual!

[magnets]

Originally Posted by DampRobot

This really frustrates me. Ok, I understand why you can't be uploading CAD files to the Q and A, but the excuse that the GDC "doesn't comment in robot design" is far overused. I'm far from the first one to point this out, but issues like 118 in 2012 should have been definitively answered before 118's first match, where they were ruled illegal. Top notch teams who know what they are doing and want to play by the rules should not have to wait until their first match to figure out if they robot they built is legal.

It's fine by me if the Q and A isn't intended for pre-vetting a extremely specific design, but if questions like "can we hang off the side of the bridge" won't be answered there, then I'm confused as to how the Q and A really serves a purpose.

Some of their answers are (in my opinion), really quite rude. Half the answers are "we cannot comment on hypothetical situations" , "the purpose of this q/a is not to perform design review" , and a statement of a rule (see q42 this year)

My favorite answer -"Carbon Fiber is not wood."

Last year, somebody asked about the bump. The reply "there is no bump on the field"

I do remember there being some funny ones in the old Q and A though, like what's underneath the scoring table, and the answer went all the way to the center of the earth. I'll see if I can find it.