Q&A Forum available at Regional and Championship event

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Originally Posted by Don Wright

My question is about the availability of the Q&A forum at events. And what the procedure will be if something on your robot or in your strategy comes into question and it was answered on the Q&A forum. Do we have to bring the Q&A Forum all printed out? Would this be considered as "legal proof" to argue/discuss the issue?

I just don't want to ask a question, get it clarified by the Q&A forum, then go and design some part which takes that answer into account, only to have it questioned by a judge at the tounament and find out that the Q&A forum doesn't have jurisdiction there or something...

Just curious...

I know that in the past, we have come up against this issue. We always had a printout of the question and answer with anything else we needed for inspection (cost sheet, etc). Sometimes the inspectors questioned our methods, and we showed them the Q&A answer and they accepted it. Other times, they knew the Q&As and we didn't even need to show them our printout. If you keep cool and work with their questions, they will work with you and you'll be fine. Just make sure you have that printout, if anything is questionable!