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This question/accusation/whatever walks a fine line. Ever since someone exploited the loophole in the rules to make tethers possible, alot of controversy has surrounded it. FIRST tried their best to formulate an addendum to the rules that would best prevent a team from purposely using their tether to hinder their opponents from scoring. FIRST was somewhat successful; however, due to the variations in the treatment of tethers at the regionals, it was very hard for them to find a common ground.

In the match you speak of, I was driving. Here is how it went down from my end of the field.

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When I saw you guys approach our robot, I knew you were either going to attempt to take our goal, or block the tether. As you approached, your goal grabber was pointed away from our goal and your robot was aligning itself perpendicular to ours, leading me to believe that you were about to prevent us from deploying our tether. With this in mind, I knew I had to release the tether then (something I normally don't do).

I released the tether and it made it to the edge of the no-score zone before your robot reached us and got in front of the tether. As quickly as my reflexes allowed, I retracted the tether because I didn't want it to be broken. It was at this point that things got blurry.

I turned the robot slightly and released the tether again. However, as soon as I released it your robot came screaming back and stopped right on top of the tether. Once again, the tether hadn't made it very far. My first instinct was to once again retract the tether, but I realized that it was under your wheel, so I didn't. Your robot kept going back and forth over the tether, as though it were going somewhere, spun around and left. As you left, I noticed that our tether didn't have a hand. I didn't think much about it, except it took a real stretch to get the tether to our endzone.

At the end of the match I see the referees and some students standing around 121's robot. Jason told me that they were trying to get us DQ'ed, so I obviously ran (walked briskly, whatever) over there. When I reached the "hot zone," however, I decided to not get caught up in the debate and opted to say my peace to Brian, a 173 alumni.

When we were allowed to clear the field, I remember saying something to a non-ricksta stage crew member wearing glasses (best description, since I don't know the name). He basically said to me what you are saying now.
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In trying to prevent our tether from reaching the endzone, your robot kept going back and forth. This motion was similar to ones done at regionals in an attempt to become entangled in the other party's tether (to cause a DQ). You did just that.

Rather than go on further, I am going to bed. If someone feels that this topic is worth stress, they can post a video of the incident and more light will be shed on the issue than this current heresay.

People can twist facts to make them adhere to one rule, or break another. We all know what happened up there, but since one team lost, it is only natural that they would attempt to use some means to turn it into a win. I am almost positive that if you had won that match, you wouldn't have posted today.. unless you were greedy for QP, which I doubt.
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