AERIAL DRONE COMPETITION • REC FOUNDATION
Note from the Aerial Drone Competition Game Design Committee (GDC):
The rules contained in this competition manual are written to be enforced by Volunteer Head Referees. Many rules have “black-and-white” criteria that can be easily checked. However, some rulings will rely on a judgment call. In these cases, Head Referees will make their calls based on what they and the Scorekeeper Referees observed, applicable rules from official support materials (the competition manual and the Q&A), and most crucially, the context of the Match in question. The Aerial Drone Competition does not have video replay, our fields do not have absolute sensors to count scores, and events do not have the resources for an extensive review conference between each Match. When an ambiguous rule results in a controversial call, there is a natural instinct to wonder what the “right” ruling “should have been,” or what the GDC “would have ruled.” This is ultimately an irrelevant question; our answer is that when a rule specifies “Head Referee’s discretion” (or similar), then the “right” call is the one made by the Head Referee at that moment. The Aerial Drone Competition GDC designs games, and writes rules, with this expectation (constraint) in mind. The illustrations in this Competition Manual are intended to provide a general Visual understanding of the missions. Teams should refer to official field specifications, found in the appendices for exact field dimensions and exact details of field construction.
GDC GAME DESIGN COMMITTEE recf.org/adc-official-q-and-a
6 MISSION 2026 TIME WARP COMPETITION MANUAL V 1.0
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