Your tall opaque robot is now illegal

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by Tem1514 Mentor

The only time the Q&A answer becomes official is when it causes a team update to occur that causes the game manual to be changed. Not all Q&A answers cause team updates. Again please see 1.6 in the game manual.

I can tell you, from the perspective of an LRI, that I see the Q&A as official clarifications of the game manual. The rulings provided in the Q&A inform my own interpretation of the rules and the rulings I make at an event. While I do reference specific rules more often at events, I do pull out Q&A responses when explaining some rulings to teams.

The answers on there are official, they just aren't considered to be final. Final rulings come from the LRI and Head Ref.