“After kickoff” means a few days after kickoff - typically Wednesday as I recall from previous years. They want to give teams time to digest the rules. This can eliminate a frivolous question that a second or third reading of the rules clearly answers.
I believe that people have said that it opens the day of the first Team Update or the day after so that people have time to actually read the manual and not just go asking questions to the Q&A.
Kickoff: Manual is released, teams complain about rules.
Tuesday after Kickoff: TU#1 is released, fixing obvious problems.
Wednesday after Kickoff: Q&A opens. Ideally by now teams have actually read the Manual so they’re asking more “edge-case” questions instead of “how many CIMs can we use”.
I am having the exact same problem. I cannot find anyone’s Questions nor any of their responses. The link to download the latest Q/A is a failed 404 error in IE, Firefox, and Chrome. I cannot even ask a question either.
I have a valid login and password and verified it via Email. While logging in, I have no problems, it’s once in, I cannot download the PDF nor ask a question.
Questions are submitted through your TIMS account - the head mentor or whoever is in charge of that account has access to that, and, iirc, can also grant permission to a student to submit questions.
I find if you pick a topic and filter to “answered” they show up…it would be much more convenient to get a weekly PDF though. Could do that last year easy. Not sure why some seem to be able to get the PDF and others cannot.
