R16 states:
Any questions or concerns about legal parts should be directed to the official Q&A System on events.vex.com.
This is both a question and a concern. The VEX V5 vision sensor 276-4850 (sold by vex and used by teams for many years) is no longer listed in the competition legal parts list.
I have several questions/concerns:
- Does this mean that the V5 vision sensor is no longer legal for use in V5RC? If so, why was this change made?
- What other previously legal parts have been removed from the list since last season? It's hard to find previous versions of the list because its updated on a continual basis, and there are zero changelogs whatsoever. So, in order to determine what changed teams somehow must memorize the entire list and compare their memory to what is currently in the list.
- Why are changes to the list not at least announced so that teams can review their parts in use? As it stands, many teams are likely to find out for the first time at a tournament inspection that their parts are no longer legal, because a silent edit to a google doc was made without their knowledge.