[Mike Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Robomarfa

I think it is a silly discussion, because velcro is obviously not a rope, and I would never let my team take that questionable and easy route. Still, I'd like to know if teams are allowed to use velcro as that puts pure rope teams at a disadvantage.

Rope is defined in the manual pretty clearly now and a sew on Velcro strap is a rope according to the definition. I'm not sure where the idea of pure rope came from but if you feel the need to make the challenge harder for your students than for the teams they're competing against that is your choice.