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View Poll Results: Entanglement or not?
Yes 8 38.10%
No 12 57.14%
Maybe 1 4.76%
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Seeing the match, how it all went down, and the results afterwards.. there's no way it wasn't entanglement. I was even conversing with one of the ref's after it happened. It's the way the head ref made the call. But I will say, it undoubtably deserved a rematch if they were unwilling to DQ an alliance. After all, the tether rule does not determine "intent". Our tether has been run over, had figure-8's pulled over and was even sucked up and dragged around. No DQ deserved though, cause that's legal (and we never entangled).

As for the carpet pulling up, I've gotta agree with 121 it was down very well. The carpet in the middle of the field got bunched up quite well on a couple of occasions when people hit us and our anchors were down. If you looked at the carpet at the beginning of the competition, you could have seen that in several places the carpet didn't even go under the players station (which is the weighest part of the field and helps greatly to hold the carpet down). There would be no valid reason to call 121 on that. Bash provided a quality carpet that just needed to be a few inches longer, but we make due with what we've got.

All that said... can we drop it? I'm not one usually to jump in on these posts, and my opinion surely isn't definitive.. but there isn't even a precedent to be set for future off-season competitions, because they are done (as far as I know). I think FIRST, and all of us, know that there were some mishandlings of the tether rule, which they will do their best to avoid next year.

You won 121. You built an excellent robot, you played well, and you deserved it. We've all had our share of unfair calls that went against (and in) our favor.. but the season's over, let's let it go! We've got a new game to get psyched for.

(And a disclaimer to everyone on 121 that isn't Ricksta... I know he's not always representative of your opinion, but he wears your shirt just as proud as you, and sometimes it's even hard for me to differentiate the opinion... so don't be offended that I refer to your team.. you know we're fans of your team)
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