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Originally Posted by mrnoble
People. Do we really want to put together a plan in which one of the major objectives of the game will rely on our ability to debate the meaning of words with an inspector? When we still have five weeks to design, prototype, and test? When there are dozens of viable alternatives? For instance, have we tried combing fibers out of something else that is, inarguably, rope, and tested them against the hook side of Velcro for adhesion? Just one of many options.
I implore you to not spend your mental energy on preparing your argument for the inspectors. We all have better things to be thinking about and working on.
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I'll second this. There are plenty of excellent ropes and excellent climber ideas that don't need to involve velcro in any way. I think that if you're using semantics to pass inspection you're trying hard to be lazy (Trust me I'm really good at doing it). I personally think it will be more interesting if everyone's robot isn't the same. (Cue joke about 2015 robot design here.)