[Darwin695]

Does anyone understand why the "tape cannot be used as a fastener" rule applies to team numbers and other signes on their robot? me neither. This rule was the source of team 8's ghettofab entry (unless you count our entire robot...) just this last year 2004. San jose regionals roll around, and shortly after uncrating our robot and performing some minor pre-planned maintanance we went to get a judge for qualification. Electronics check, pneumatics check, team numbers... not high enough

no problem says i

4 8.5x11 sheets of paper, masking tape and a lot of sharpie later, we are ready to call back the judge.

electronics check, pneumatics check, no tape as fasteners... not so check.

our ghettofab solution, was to zip tie the blinking sheets of paper to the verts on our robot... not only ghettofab, but weaker than what was illiegal... someone tell me why this makes sense???