Thoughts on easing of tape restrictions

[Billfred]

This year, the GDC decided to make one notable exclusion from the rules: any rules specifically addressing the use of tape on robots. They've said on Q&A that this is an experiment "to see if tapes can/will be used in an aesthetically and structurally appropriate manner, without having myriad robots 'held together with duct tape and baling wire' appear at the competitions."

What uses of tape have you seen (or used) this year? Were they for the better?

On 1618, we made extensive use of black gaffer's tape to complete the look of the robot (photo forthcoming--the one on my phone is incomplete and my camera is still with the girlfriend). Most of it was non-functional in nature, though one could argue that blacking out the two rollers might've helped in the area of extra grip on the balls beyond what our wedgetop provided. We did use some to help attach our netting inside the robot to keep balls from rolling back over our electronics, but we wanted to be able to remove that in a hurry anyway.