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Originally posted by Nate Smith
My impression of the "risk of entanglement" issue is this:
During the inspection process on Thursday, your machine will be examined for anything that a team could get tangled in during operation of the machine. If it is deemed that a mechanism or component on a machine poses a risk of entanglement, you will not be allowed to compete in qualifying matches until it is resolved, just as if you had not met any of the other inspection criteria. If they are not sure, they will warn you, and if it does become intangled during a match, you will be disallowed to compete further until the issue is corrected.
So, the key is not whether or not something does become entangled, but rather whether it could, as the ruling will, in 99% of cases, be made before a machine ever reaches the playing field.
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That is correct, but refs are human...they don't catch everything.
The one that inspects may say "ho hum", but the one on the field might penalize you for doing something.