Your tall opaque robot is now illegal

[dodar]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Bingo.

The person asking the question asked if it was legal to have a device intended to interfere with sensors. The GDC responded to the question asked. People here are interpreting that to mean a much broader answer, that no devices capable of blocking cameras are allowed.

People are inferring a broad interpretation from past GDC responses.

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by dodar

People are inferring a broad interpretation from past GDC responses.

That does happen often, but what happens if a team complains about it, shows them the blocking robot and a printout of the Q/A response? I'm sure all referees won't see it the same way.

[dodar]

Originally Posted by waialua359

That does happen often, but what happens if a team complains about it, shows them the blocking robot and a printout of the Q/A response? I'm sure all referees won't see it the same way.

That'll then go on how the LRI or Head Ref interprets the response by the GDC.