This is a contest to help develop an "ultimate" rope combining the strength of wire with the flexibility of fiber. A wire rope is developed by engineers so skilled that in the past they've made one 0.009 millimeters in diameter; they can do things by hand that machines can't. Their fiber opposition: a university research group intent on combining traditional Japanese braiding techniques with cutting-edge technologies used in developing space probes. This tug of war will exceed 6 tons of pulling force. Which will break, which will last: wire or fiber?