[Andrew Y.]

My biggest concern with the ruling was less with the rule itself but more with what was allowed. We had inspectors come into our pits even before we began the inspection phase and began looking at our robot and bumpers. From listening to the conversation...most of the inspectors seemed to think the bumpers were fine but ONE inspector decided they wern't and had FIRST headquarters called and thats when we got the news that the bumpers were in fact illegal. So we argues and showed R07L but it was still deemed illegal by FIRST headquarts. So whatever....we fixed the bumpers and were on our way.


What REALLY annoyed the living crap out of me was seeing teams with dragging bumpers...HUGE V gaps in all corners, no team numbers, fabric that was hanging off, and viptied to the frame of their robots. When i brought this issue up with the inspectors i was told "we needed to get teams out there and passed inspection so we let it slide" WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?! so a team that is prepared is more likely to be scrutinized than teams that didnt?

what i learned from this....inspect late...better chance they will let you slide.