18-01-2017, 13:23
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Alumni turned Mentor
AKA: Branden Gunn
 FRC #4761 Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Rookie Year: 1996
Location: Reading, MA
Posts: 877
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Re: Team update 3
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Originally Posted by Cothron Theiss
I personally wish they'd just left the Velcro can of worms closed, and made all Velcro illegal from the start. But they didn't, so now it's legal to use some forms of Velcro on a rope, and we can be sure that some teams will. But I'm not convinced it's the best solution. I imagine we'll see some great climbing teams that use Velcro, and I imagine we'll see even more that don't.
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I just don't see how they could have outlawed it even with the kickoff rules. as long as the material was constructed properly (no adhesive, etc.), then it would have been legal. I don't think anything has actually changed here, just been clarified (SEWN is clearer, and might be the only change)
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Student FRC23 (1996-1999), Mentor FRC246 (2000), Mentor FRC1318 (2007-2009), Mentor FRC93 (2011), Mentor FRC2151 (2012), Mentor FRC23 (2013), Mentor FRC4761 (2014-2017)
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