[EricH]

Originally Posted by Valley Raider

I don't see this as a problem. Look the string is just going to be laying on the ground there is no way for you to force it into the wheels of another Robot. The only way it's going to become entangled is if an opposing bot drives over it. In this case they are the ones who started the contact and thus they can't force you to take a penalty.

Find someone who was around in 2002. The tethers had a tendency to tangle at least a little when driven over, even the ones with metal reinforcing them.

And as for having another robot drive over it and not get a penalty... Outside the bumper zone contact, plus it probably goes past your bumpers, which makes you responsible. Not quite a non-penalty situation... but you could argue that it was their fault (if it was short enough)... So it would depend on the ref. I'm not exactly thrilled about using something that could make the ref make a difficult call.