<G6>We were at an IQ event yesterday and my team has a string attached on a pulley design, which is attached to their roller shaft. They use this design to start a match having the robot being in the center of the field, while the string is touching the field wall, as they start the roller, the string will be retracted back inside of their robot. The EP/JA did not let our team use this design on the base of this might potentially tangle other robots. So he was assuming that our design will malfunction. Which does not make any sense to me. We see robots coming apart, or pieces falling in the field all the time, should those robot be banned from the matches? And we try to be understanding and respectful, and asked respectfully see if we can use the design in skills at least, there is no other robot for us to tangle in skills. But the answer is no. We can not use the string at all. That threw out our opportunity to do autonomous skills since our route was written based on the robot starting in the middle of the field and all the headings are based on that. This is legal VEX IQ part, even used in the swish bot design, please help me understand why a legal design using legal part would be banned by an EP/JA base on the reason that they think this might not work well.
For your reference, attached is the picture of the design.
