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Originally Posted by russell
What is this tether rule you mentioned Cory?
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If I had to guess, it would be the particularly awful "tape measure" rules and rulings from 2002. In that year, there was concern about entanglement by extensible devices, like motorized tape measures; contradictory Q&A answers were posted, then the entanglement rules were clarifed and reinterpreted--but by the time the season came around, teams were regularly installing and using illegal ones (such as from vendors other than Small Parts), and getting away with it. Plus, the penalties for entanglement itself were not consistently enforced.