[Samwaldo]

The team you are refering to is 2064. Their technical mentor was a technology teacher at my High School so i got to hear and see quite alot of that design

Im pretty sure that the 2 hooks they used were riveted to tape measures that without side loads are very strong. They were each ran off of window motors. A ball was pushed against the curved part of the tape so that it stayed alligned and bent less. (Not sure if that makes sense)

Overall was it the best design? It had its flaws especially the fact that the tape measures when touched or vibrated enough would collapse. At Where's Wolcott our team chose 1511 and them. As the #7 alliance we made it to the finals due to the fact that we timed out when each robot would climb another level since 1511's slams would vibrate the pyramid to much for the tape measures.