Batteries Carried Into Competitions

[Lil' Lavery]

Honestly people, come on.

Take a step back, breath. Relax. And think for a moment.

The purpose of the Q&A is to clarify rules, not to create or modify rules. That is the purpose of the Team Updates. The GDC clarified a rule, as currently written.

If anyone honestly thinks this rule will not be updated in a Team Update, they are insane. Everyone with a bit of common sense realizes this was not the intent of the GDC rule, but it was how it was written.

Nobody, including the GDC, realized the implications of the COTS rules on batteries. The new withholding allowance caused teams to look at these rules from a different angle, which caused the teams and GDC to see this discrepancy.

Is it a good rule? No, absolutely not.

The GDC is not some superhuman being, they cannot see every problem coming.
Nor can they create team updates immediately to solve every problem (they have lives just like the rest of us). Yes, there was one today, but the changes in that one had likely already been discussed before this issue exploded.

If anyone is seriously suggesting the GDC answer the Q&A by anything other than the letter of the rules (as currently written), they are, once again, insane.

Chill out, give this issue some time. You all know how quickly the leads can be removed, you've posted about it constantly. If the rule does not change, you are more than capable of doing it before week 1. But if they do, and they will, you can save yourself those five minutes by being patient now.