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Re: minibot battery
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Originally Posted by dodar
Like what? Just curious to know because I really never remember hearing anything at the regional.
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Mike,
Why should you have? Without a comprehensive Q&A, the rulings went in favor of the team...
For example, what if a team had a minibot magnet with an integral metal cover? Many COTS magnets, such as a cabinet latch or some refrigerator magnets, are sold this way... This GDC insight may have been overlooked in favor of the team...
Without the Q&A, the LRI is forced to give the team the benefit of the doubt.
Teams are likely to print out Q&As that support their design decisions but not those which point out their "illegality". I know of no inspectors that print out over 300 GDC "gems" and, even if they did, there is no time to manually search that paper stack.
An electronically searchable database (like this one from last year) is the only solution and FIRST decided not to provide these this year...
We do the best with what we have...
Mike
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Mike Betts
Alumnus, Team 3518, Panthrobots, 2011
Alumnus, Team 177, Bobcat Robotics, 1995 - 2010
LRI, Connecticut Regional, 2007-2010
LRI, WPI Regional, 2009 - 2010
RI, South Florida Regional, 2012 - 2013
As easy as 355/113...
Last edited by Mike Betts : 21-03-2011 at 22:53.
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