IR Legalality in '08 Season

[Hieb]

I has seemed to me that it is always in the spirit of FIRST to plan, prototype, "tinker" if you will, during the "off-season." Just remember that if you create a really awesome custom circuit it will probably have to be tweaked and almost definitely have to be rebuilt in order to use it in competition. I doubt FIRST sent this to us with the intention of its use as a piece of decorative desktop art--plan, design, and come up with a million and one creative uses--but wait to build your competition plan until after the 5th.

[Bharat Nain]

They gave it to you so you can become familiar with its workings. That way you cannot complain that FIRST gave us the hardware so late so we could not use it. I am not sure how you are supposed to design something when you have no idea what the game is going to be. Putting down ideas is never against FIRST rules or spirit.