The FRA rules were originally written with the support and involvement of the RFL to ensure that there was some similarity between rules in the UK and the US.

The benefit of this co-working is born out by the fact that UK teams travelling to Robo Olympics in March can run in the US but to our UK FRA rules rather than changing.

So yes there will be a similarity, but to suggest that there were plagarised is just stupid. If you look at early copies of the FRAs rules it stated written in conjunction with the RFL or something similar on them. Also anyone with a copy of the documentation from the FRA World Champs will see on page 7 that it acknowledges the RFLs involvement in the original FRA rules in plain text.

So there is no dishonesty Philip, the fact the FRA worked with the RFL on the rules is a published fact, and the reasons for wanting harmony between the UK and US rules is obvious !

Do you really have nothing better to do than to sit and throw rocks at a group of people working hard to keep roboteering going in the UK ? Sounds to me like someone just trying to stir trouble.

Really... get a life

Ed