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Originally Posted by Fusion_Clint
Did you notice the color linked too is High Vis yellow before you commented?
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High Visibility Yellow, at .035" thick. On carpet. From a distance. Think about that for one moment.
Is it going to be visible? Yeah. Is it going to be easily visible at close range? Yeah. Is it going to be easily visible at 15 feet? 20 feet? 50 feet? How about 150 feet (somewhere in the audience)? Not so much.
And because it's not as easily visible as, say, mason's line, the refs--even if
they can see it clearly--are going to have people asking "isn't that a penalty?" to which the response will have to be--every match--"No, because there's a tether there" (and a quick-thinking ref will hopefully check the tether after every match just to make sure it didn't snap). Remember, if you make something obvious, the refs are a lot less likely to have to take time to make a judgment call (BTW, we don't like making judgment calls if we don't have to). If you make it non-obvious... well, it could go either way. Chances are that you'll be asked nicely to see if there's any way to make it more visible.
For example, I think it would be a lot easier to see if someone were to apply a rope-making machine to the line and turn 1 strand into 6 or so strands all tightly woven together.
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Also, assuming the "we" in your comment is the refs; that is your decision on whom to give additional scrutiny, just don't penalize them for your ridiculous decision. It should be pretty easy to determine if the tether is in place.
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It is. Realize this: It should be easy to determine if the tether is in place. Yes, I agree. It may be LESS easy to determine that it is still in one piece! And if it is not in one piece, we'll probably start with a suggestion to use a stronger tether if possible (assuming that such multi-piece-ness was accidental), and only start going for stronger "suggestions" if it happens again.
Because remember: If you can "get away with not following" a rule (here I'm aiming at the perspective the rest of the teams may be seeing from, and giving us a hard time after or during the event from), there are other teams that may be, shall we say, a little "less accidental" about "not following" a rule, and then you're the "well, they got away with it" team used as an example by said teams. I don't like those kind of situations, as a spectator OR as a ref!