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These YMTC threads can and do serve a good purpose. This one in particular serves well, because I think a lot of people weren't aware that a PART can be a MECHANISM. Thus an arm can be a part.

(My team for example, was in almost this exact situation. The end peice of our grabber was mangled pretty completely in our last elmination match. We brought the end of our arm home with us in order to fix it. In the process we upgraded it to expand more to make it harder for a tetra to slip. The peice of our arm we have is now about 7 lbs.)

The discussion of the rules can be really productive. I have read a couple of YMTC threads which made me see things from a different perspective. All we need is for all of us to remember to be gracious. Snide comments can tick someone else off. The most persuasive arguments are the ones which are polite, respectful and powered by well-supported reasoning. We would all do well to remember that a group of dedicated people put in a lot of time to create a really cool game for the rest of us to play.