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Originally Posted by LBK Rules
I'm sorry, but what was this tether rule that is reffered to?
I didn't start FIRST untill 2003.
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there was a zone in the 2002 game that if you could get any part of your robot in you would recieve 50 points....they made it very clear that if there was any possiblity of your robot become entangled in another robot there would be grave consequences....
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...t=entanglement this link will provide more accuracy of the exact wording of the rule.
anyways the first weekend at kennedy space center 312 and 59 tested exactly how strictly they were going to enforce this rule.....on thursday 233 attempted to get entangled with 312's tether but they couldn't so ruling on tethers seemed to have been laxed from then on.....then people began adding devices (up 'til the last day of nationals I saw people adding tape measures to their robot) that were much more probable of getting entangled, but were still allowed. (25 had a very similar tether to 312 & 59 so
here's a pic of 25's tether)
It was messy.....in answer to this thread.....no in fact i bet they can't go one week without changing a rule, but that's just me
p.s. sry for the history lesson
