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Unhappy WRRF (silicon valley) semi's

ok, so, i dont wanna be a nag or anything, but in the semi-finals at silicon valley, there was a little bit of an entanglement. the alliances were 840 (me-aragon high), 192 (gunn) and 814(new technology highschool), vs. 60(Kingman High), 254(bellarmine) and 359(waialua high). our team won the first match, their team won the second match, and in the third match, it was 192and 814 vs. 60 and 254; team 60 had their tether out while they were in a tug of war with 254 vs 192, and 814 was driving around, the ran over 60's tether and something got caught around their wheel, 814's robot was sort of disabled, but not completely, it could inch around but it had LOTS of trouble. we lost the match by 10 pts (21-31?) wich could have been gotten by 814 getting the 3rd goal and moving it from zone 1->2 and giving us 10 points. the judges did not see the wrapped tether around 814 till way later after the team looked at their robot in the pits. but the judges weren't happy. i guess they were thinking about giving us a rematch but it never happened, i guess finals got started too fast or something i dont know the technicalities, but because 814 got disabled it cost us going to finals. we never really got an official ruling on it, the judges weren't very happy with it though. 254 and 60 are well built machines and i wouldnt have minded losing to them if it wasnt for something they could have been d-q'ed for...but it was just fustrating....thats my little story on entanglement.
also- i dont wanna start a big mess on this forum about who should have won the match, so teams 254 and 60 please feel free to contest any part of the story.
-Turbo (814-ART)
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