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Re: 2015 Carson Division

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Originally Posted by Wayne Doenges View Post
Several of the inspectors commented on the fact that one of the questions on the inspection form was, does your robot pose a possible entanglement hazard.
How did the tethered bots get by this?
Ours had an active tether - more of an obstacle than the ramp tethers. We tell the inspectors that our robot and tether play alone in 1/8 of the field. And our robot had fenders to keep the tether from entangling. Inspectors at 3 regionals and champs didn't question us further.

We also had a ramp for alliance members to use. In our case that was a tether ran along the wall between two pieces (ramp and stacking cube) that did not move - again no problem.
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