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Southfield (FiM) had to resort to the "Toronto rule" Friday afternoon. By that time the curtains were more tape than fabric.

We received an overnight shipment from FIRST of new material Saturday morning. The second match of the day, the fabric split at least halfway across its length. I watched it happen. It was not cut by a sharp object, it split when a blunt object hit it with force.

The inspector double checked robots on Friday for sharp edges, and helped a few teams add some foam padding. So there was probably some narrower leading points that may have cut the fabric on Friday. But I'm pretty sure it wasn't something that would have been disallowed on a robot for being sharp. The fabric just wasn't strong enough to take any kind of a beating, either from sharp or blunt edges.