What's the best rope?

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by GeeTwo

Velcro is not composed of twisted or braided strands, unless you consider individual polymer molecules strands and are looking at it under a really good microscope. Feel free to ask on Q&A, but this seems like a pretty solid no to me.

You omitted the verbiage of the rule that makes Velcro legal from your definition, specifically "woven". Loop-side Velcro consists of very thin strands woven together, sometimes with a fabric backing that is also woven. Sometimes the backing and the Velcro loops are even interwoven! This means certain strips of Velcro clearly meet the rules as written. I suspect the rules will probably be changed to add a Velcro exception so that we don't all just have winches made of Velcro that can be designed in five minutes, but as of now it doesn't seem very ambiguous.