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Originally Posted by russell
What is this tether rule you mentioned Cory?
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In 2002 FIRST originally said that nothing that could cause entanglement with other robots would be allowed in making "tethers" to span the field. This was pretty much aimed at discouraging tape measures.
When tape measures started showing up all over the field and were allowed, people that spent tons of effort to make non entangling tethers were pretty pissed.
Same kind of thing. Teams that built their bots on the premise of one globe won't be happy if this is right