1519 - One Dual-Config Robot or Two Robots?

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by squirrel

...you can tell just by looking at it, without referring to any rules at all...

If you're going to decide something without using the rules, there's no way to know whether someone else will decide the same thing. The objective standard is the collection of rules, not "common sense".

I don't see anything in the rules that makes 1519's paratwa-bot illegal. I don't see their solution as exploiting a loophole. On the contrary, I'm in awe of the creative outside-the-box thinking that devised it. I am disappointed by the GDC's decision on the matter, I am dismayed by the weak arguments used to support the decision, and I am discouraged by the tone of the Q&A response. But I accept the decision and I move on, expecting that next year's manual will address the issue more solidly.