entanglement

[Matt Reiland]

I like the argument that the tether must be entangled on purpose or that it didn't actually get entagled in the match. BUT, that wasn't the way it was described on Yahoo from FRC almost all questions about tethers stated that if it COULD become entagled it wouldn't be allowed. I saw all types of things at GLR that should have been DQ's including a huge piece of carpet being ripped up, robots grabbing hold of the PVC instead of the pipes, tape measures... it goes on and on but no one got DQ'd. And the worst thing is on one match we manuvered our robot to block an advancing tether device, a telescoping one which I feel does meet the rules well and we were actually warned when we made contact with it that we were possibly going to damage it?!! I saw full on hits from robots that is perfectly legal why is blocking a tether from deploying not legal especially if it will change the outcome of the match???

Anyway congrats to all of the great robots at GLR, the coolest tether I saw was the Lake Orion lexan that was soo fast to deploy and actually retract if needed very nice design.