[YMTC]: Safety mistake costs team the match?

[Travis Hoffman]

<S01> only gives referees omnipotent jurisdiction (that should be a legal term) over ROBOT-related safety violations.....

 
<S01>
If at any time a ROBOT'S operation or design is deemed unsafe by the head referee, it will
 
receive a 10-point penalty and be disabled for the remainder of the match. If the safety violation is due to the ROBOT design, the head referee has the option to not allow the ROBOT back onto the field until the design has been corrected. Examples of unsafe operation include uncontrolled motion that cannot be stopped by the drivers, throwing GAME PIECES into the audience etc.

I fear this is a case of a rule (<T01>) without consequence. FIRST says don't do it but doesn't spell out any punishment for stated infractions......

 
 
<T01> 
 
 
 

Teams are responsible for providing their own safety glasses at each event. All team
 
members, including coaches, must wear safety glasses while in the pit or on the play field 
during matches.
 
 
 
 

Until the rules are further amended to explicitly indicate a penalty for the infraction (or put it under the S01 umbrella), no disablement, penalty, or DQ should be levied against alliances whose drive team members forget to wear their safety glasses. That is something the esteemed referees should ALWAYS check before the match begins anyway. Shame on them, in this case.

By the way, cutting and pasting from the game manual into CD is a pain in the posterior. If anyone knows of a straightforward, clean method of doing this, please enlighten me.