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Re: capping the tower

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Originally Posted by lineskier View Post
The round tubes have a diameter of 12" and are flexible, the disks at the top of the poll are 12" too. This means that potentially the disk could fall down the to the bottom.
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1) Field reset will want to do mean things to you. They have to remove the tubes.
2) If I were the head ref, I'd see intentional blocking. Boom, red card. See that blue box below <G24>? It's not a rule, but it does say something about throwing tubes at minibots climbing. I'd figure on that being enough to pull the card; you are interfering with deployment.
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