As a member of team 753, the robot that was 'hanging' on the bar, I would like to say that the call was perfect. We all accepted the ruling without any frustration. In fact it was in our teams favor, we moved on. Actually, we did not expect to get the points for hanging anyway, we knew we were not.
If any ruling was controversial it was not whether we were hanging, it was whether we were an entanglement to the other team. This would have meant we were disqualified and would have lost. The entanglement call was not even the one that there was much emotion about it was the insignificant call about us hanging or not. The delay in the ruling was for the entanglement not hanging.
Anyway, just to clarify, and also to say thanks again to the refs. We lost in finals due to a chain of insanely unlucky events, but still had an awesome time.
Michael Forte
mforte@bendcable.com