The FRC website says the manual is “COMING 1/5/13”, does this mean no encrypted manual this year? has there been any discussion on this?
Releasing the encrypted manual before the kickoff was good practice in my opinion since the servers were always crippled by the kickoff load. The only reason I can think of that would make FIRST avoid this was if the encryption was cracked last year or something, but I don’t remember anything like that… odd…