emergency sanding question

[brennerator]

Hey, my name is Daniel Brenner from team 1560. We will be participating in the Silicon Valley Regional tomorrow.

By pure accident, I was re-reading the rules, and found a new document for Robot Inspectors: http://www2.usfirst.org/2006comp/oth...tion-rev_C.pdf

On page 6, it says that sandpaper is specifically not allowed. However, I've reread the normal robot rules (that teams are expected to read) and found no specific mention that sandpaper is not allowed. The problem is is that our coveyor belt is made of sandpaper. We've tested it, and it does not more than lightly scratch the surface of the balls-far from anything we ever considered as "damage." Now it's the night before the regional, and i was wondering if anybody had any interpretations of this rule or any suggestions for us? Do we have to replace the belt?