Thread: Fit to be Tethered: New Rule
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Unread 01-04-2002, 09:33
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DQ for tether under goal?
The post from FIRST (both here and on Yahoo) only addresses the point that tethers are not considered an entanglement issue; I believe they previously ruled that if a goal were pushed over a tether then the tethered robot would be DQ'd as a violation of the "no part of the robot under the platform" rule. I assume this hasn't changed, or are we just going to throw out ALL the rules?

BTW, next year if we spend "time and effort into engineering" a kill-saw in clear violation of the rules, will we be allowed to demonstrate it? Sorry FIRST, (and Woody) - you blew it on this one.