The competition tether is now up and the initial order of teams has been set.\u00a0 First up will be the UBC-Snowstar team.\u00a0 Second will be the German TurboCrawler team.\u00a0 Third will be the High School LiteWon team.\u00a0 Fourth will be the Kansas City Space Pirates.\u00a0 Fifth will be the USST team.\u00a0 The University of Michigan MClimber, the team that made the only climb yesterday, is set as an alternate.\u00a0 If one of the scheduled teams is not ready to go, MClimber will get their slot.<\/p>\n
The winds are still light, but the tether is already twisting in the wind.\u00a0 It’s not whipping around like it was yesterday, though, so let’s keep our fingers crossed.<\/p>\n
An update to the Microwave team test.\u00a0 They are going to have to demonstrate that they can successfully climb the 30 foot Qualification tether before the effort is going to be made to move the 200 foot Competition tether to the fairgrounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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