**FIRST EMAIL**/Competition Manual Q & A System Live on Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

[Mark McLeod]

Greetings Teams:

FIRST recognizes that teams may have questions about game rules, robot construction, event logistics, and more. FIRST will offer a Question & Answer System (Q&A), on FIRST Forums, which will allow teams to post questions pertaining to a specific section within the 2009 FIRST Robotics Competition Manual <http://www.usfirst.org/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=452> . Your posted questions will be reviewed by the appropriate moderator and answered in a timely manner. The 2009 Question & Answer System, http://forums.usfirst.org/, will go live on the FIRST Forums Wednesday, January 7th at Noon EST.

In order to access the Q&A system, your team’s specific login info can be found on the Team Summary page in your TIMS record. Please assign one individual from your team to act as the Team Rules Expert and only share your team's unique User Name and Password with him/her. This Team Rules Expert should be the only person responsible for posting questions to the Q&A System.

Before posting a question on the Q&A System, we encourage teams to look for the answers to questions first within the 2009 FRC Manual and Team Updates. You can review these documents here: http://www.usfirst.org/community/frc...nt.aspx?id=960.

Go Teams!