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Entanglement at Bash

On saturday 24 teams came to East Lyme to compete in the last northeast competition this year. Keep in mind that all goal entanglement was allowed as long as it did not lift the goal.

During match 23, teams 121 and 195 faced off against 173 and 263LX. The match was sure to be a great one considering how crazy good that old 263LX was at defense. We got a lot of new dents to our bot in that match.

Anyways, about a minute into the match, 173 had one goal in scoring postition and decided to launch there tether now. Upon realizing this we, 121, got in the way of the tape measure to block it from getting to there home zone. It worked and the tape measure was retracted.

Then the tape measure was launched again and we got in the way. Except this time it broke and got caught inside our robot. Back in the player station we had no clue what was going on. It only looked as though the tape measure was moved off to one side. But then we also realized we could not move like normal.

We wanted to get to our home zone after realizing we had some unknown problems. The robot was pulling to one side and it was not until we were in the second/middle zone that we saw the paper hand of the tape measure. The match ended and we lost.

Upon inspecting the robot immedietly afterwards we noticed that a lot of tape measure was wrapped around our axle (after removing it we found 43 inches of it). Our team asked the refs to look at the damage and see that it was an obvious form of entagnlement.

While allowing the refs to inspect, team members from RAGE came literally yelling that it was our intent to destroy the tape measure and purposely get entangled. The refs were sick of hearing the arguments and went to discuss it.

At no time did I see any rulebook being used. The head ref at the time also told us we could not have a robot whose controls were on the outside start in the middle. An obvious newcomer to reffing.

When we look at the rules we see that it does not matter the intent of the team, what matters is part of a robot got entangled in another and this was due to that teams use of the robot.

Here is the rules excerpt:
ON TETHERED / EXTENDED OBJECTS BEING AN ENTANGLEMENT RISK The TIMING of the release of a mechanism IS NOT CONSIDERED when evaluating its risk of entanglement because the actions of other robots and position of the goals on the field cannot be predicted with certainty. Even if you only release the mechanism in the last few seconds of the match, if it presents an entanglementrisk, it will be evaluated that way. When designing your robot, please consider the environment on the playing field during a match and use your common wisdom to evaluate the likelihood of your mechanism getting wrapped around an axle, caught on a bolt or arm or other robot feature, or even hung up on part of a goal. Tape measure tape, while less likely to be caught on a sharp edge than an piece of string, is still a relatively flexible material when used in long lengths, and might easily be run over and snagged by another robot or a goal that is being moved.

So with all this we have the strongest evidence that you the Chief Delphi reader can use: A picture

This is not a post to make people mad. I just want to know opinions. The match is over and done with.
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