AERIAL DRONE COMPETITION PRO • RECF
NOTE FROM THE ADC PRO GAME DESIGN COMMITTEE (GDC) The rules contained in this competition manual are written to be enforced by human Head Referees. Many rules have “black-and-white” criteria that can be easily checked. However, some rulings will rely on a judgment call from this human Head Referee. In these cases, Head Referees will make their calls based on what they and the Scorekeeper Referees saw, what guidance is provided by their official support materials (the competition manual and the Q&A), and most crucially, the context of the Match in question. The ADC Pro competition does not have video replay, the fields do not have sensors to count scores, and events do not have the resources for extensive review conferences 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 in the moment. The ADC Pro GDC designs games and writes rules, with this expectation (constraint) in mind.
GDC GAME DESIGN COMMITTEE
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