[jman4747]

Originally Posted by martin417

There is no governing body I know of to ask questions of, since this was not imposed by FIRST.

Your best bet is to e-mail our head inspector (bottom right of the doc). He has been very good about replying to such questions in the past. It would seem though that all this needs to be is a pin/bar/strap of some sort that you manually remove before and after matches. I think it may be a bit less complex than what you may be thinking. But that said I didn't write it so ask the inspector.

Like said above, this isn't technically a new rule it's a stated manner in which a rather ambiguous rule will be enforced at a particular regional. FIRST left R8 very open and this is our LRIs' interpretation of safe.