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Re: SBPLI Long Island Regional Disqualification

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Originally Posted by George A. View Post
I do feel for your story, and I appreciate the fact that you are taking the bulk of the responsibility.

Before I continue, I should point out that it wasn't the Judges that disqualified you. They are just there in their blue shirts to decide the recipients of the awards.

That being said, there are several places where this fell through the cracks.

1) the inspectors should have caught this when you went through inspections on Thursday, the fact that they didn't catch it is a little suspect. Secondly, if you were selected to the eliminations, you should have had to be reinspected on Saturday afternoon. Hopefully this is where you learned of your infraction (and not as you were placing your bot on the field)

2) the referees should have caught this as well. They should know the rule books and what is allowed (to a certain extent, we can't have them inspecting every robot before every match)

3) As soon as you learned of your infraction, you should have brought it to the attention of the inspectors and find out why they passed you with what appears to be an illegal design?

Like I said, it's unfortunate that this incident happened to you, and I do applaud you for stepping up to the plate. However the question should really be, why did you have to get DQ'ed before the ELIMS and not in the two days leading up to this.
We were reinspected Saturday, the powers that be (I have to admit, I'm ignorant as to the terms I should be using, I'm simply reusing the terms we were told when the events that lead to the disqualification were described to us) found no problem with our robot. They passed it through both Thursday's and Saturday's inspection because whoever was heading inspections had read the rules the same way we had. We were informed literally AFTER the robot was put on the field for the quarterfinals, and that was what my primary problem was. Apparently the event that lead to the final check with New Hampshire was the onset of complaints they received once teams realized we were paired with the 8th seed and would therefore be placed in the elimination rounds.

As for the referees, I can't speak for them. I would assume that since this requires a good amount of reading through the rules they were unaware of the rule.

Finally, when the infraction was brought to our attention we were told that the reason we were finally disqualified was that someone had called up to New Hampshire for an official clarification and that there was nothing anyone could do at that point to reverse their decision.

I apologize if I seem defensive, I merely mean to clarify with any and all information I have as questions arise.
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