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augmented FIRST Tech Challenge game manuals for referees
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# What The Ref? - an augmented game manual for FIRST Tech Challenge



The FIRST Tech Challenge game manual states, "the intent of this manual is

that the text means exactly, and only, what it says [...] if you have read

everything, you know everything". In practical, realistic experience as a FTC

Head Referee, I've come to disagree with this statement. This project is my

practical answer to the logistical quagmire of chasing down pages on end of

Q&As, ref forum posts, etc. prior to an event and reconciling the clarifications

(or outright modifications) found within, against the game manual, in hopes to

provide a more consistent refereeing experience for the students of FTC.



> FIRST, if you ever read this: please do for FTC what you already do for FRC.

Just diff the manual in weekly Team Updates. Mark the outgoing text in red,

mark the incoming text in green. Add blue boxes to clarify things teams have

asked about. In short: *make this repo useless*, or at least make it an HTML

alternative to the game manual that's mostly useful for accessibility reasons,

rather than an outright different user experience regarding event prep. I'll

even help you do the work if you'll let me. But in the meantime, I'll do this

work instead.



## Who Maintains This, Anyway?



I'm [Josh Klar](https://klar.sh), co-Senior Head Referee for FTC in Washington

State. My commitment for 2023-24 is that I will update these rulesets the

Thursday prior to any officially-sanctioned FTC event in Washington State,

and the week prior to the World Championship event in April. If you're a Head

Referee in some other region who has found this project and come to rely on it,

drop me an email and, if time allows, I'll do another update run, or you can

contribute the patches yourself on

[GitHub](https://github.com/klardotsh/what-the-ref),

[SourceHut](https://git.sr.ht/~klardotsh/what-the-ref), or by emailing me

whatever needs changed.



## Legal Blah-Blah-Blah



All rules content, images, media, and the branding of the games themselves,

are all copyright [FIRST Robotics](https://firstinspires.org). The licensing

of these resources is unclear, but my use of them here is intended as fair use

as a volunteer member of the program, to improve the consistency of refereeing

(and the quality of referee lives) across the program. Please don't come at me,

FIRST, there are bigger fish to fry.



All original text, imagery, etc., including the prose intepretations of

some rules, are licensed as closely to public domain as I can legally

muster in all jurisdictions, [Creative Commons Zero 1.0

Universal](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en).



All code in this repository is likewise licensed as closely to public domain as

possible in the form of the [Zero-Clause BSD

License](https://opensource.org/license/0bsd/).



Don't use this code, prose, or any resources generated by them, for nefarious

purposes. This is a K12 education program for goodness' sake, be a good person.