[Andy330]

As much as I don't want to bad mouth team 992, I can't help but think that they could have realized that their "carpet" is a dangerous device. I know both the refs personally, and am told that 992 was given a stern warning that if ANYTHING became entangled in their device, no matter what the motives of either parties involved, it was the deployers fault.

Even if they could not foresee the impending problems, they were called for entanglement more than once, so they could have then removed their device and avoid any further problems.

Furthermore, after their offenses were called, they refused to give up, even when the matches were long over. A team member of 992 came up to one of the refs and started cussing and complaining about how horrible the call was. This is the exact opposite of gracious professionalism. May I inform you that neither of the refs were supposed to ref by themselves, much less the whole day. It was the other teams who didn't fufill their responsibility by submitting refs to help. May I also remind 992 that the refs at the regionals and nationals are sure to be much more strict, and the teams might be disqualified for the rest of the competition simply for voicing their disagreement.

I urge Oakwood to cosider removing or at least modifying their device before further using it.