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Originally Posted by Cory
I dont think tape measures were the problem, necessarily, but rather the fact that FIRST specifically said NO tape measures in the beginning of the season, then when they saw them on robots, they started allowing them. I didnt like this because we spent weeks trying to come up with a non entangling tether, and ended up going through three mechanisms, then we show up at regionals and there are tape measures everywhere. Kinda makes you wonder why you even spent the time when people slapped tape measures on in an hour or two.
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Well, that's mostly due to them clarifying the rules by a few at one regional, aka VCU. There they set a standard for what they were looking for, and then the rest followed. A few chose the rules. We also designed ours not to be entangling, I mean it's 2 inches as a cube, but we were disqualified because people used the "no goals on teather" rule to disqualify people in the last few seconds.