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Originally Posted by KWB@FIRST
No............ not the danger tape, we here at FIRST put that there. If the gate was closed and the ramp was up, ready for competition, the ramp that is up facing the field was covered with black tape. This wasn't all the fields, only a couple.
We were wondering if it was causing reflection, interfering? The only two thoughts we had was either to protect the floor, or glare. If it is a big problem we change change it.
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I don't recall seeing any tape on the underside of the ramps on the fields I saw (although since I went to Florida, Peachtree, and Palmetto, I more or less saw the same field three times).
I couldn't really picture reflection being an issue (the dull side of the ramp's diamond plate is facing into the field, plus there's all that diamond plate on the ramp and player station walls that wasn't taped), but carpet protection sounds plausible. I know many gatekeepers are less than graceful when it comes to setting down the ramp (it was more of a swift kick whenever I did it), so doing that some 200 times over a regional (doubled if your carpet goes to two regionals) could -maybe- do something to the carpet in that part of the field. I have absolutely no scientific evidence to back that up, though.