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Originally Posted by IndySam
I have both done inspection and been a referee this year. I'm sorry but to say an inspector or ref shouldn't be criticized is simply wrong.
This problem should have been caught by both of these sets of individuals. They didn't catch it so they should share in the blame.
Ultimately it was the your teams fault especially when you stated that a couple of teams pointed it out that the frame was illegal. Those teams shouldn't have to quote the specific rule to you, you chose not to investigate their advice.
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We tried to investigate their advice. We got multiple copies of the rulebook and started pouring through both the rules and the team updates. We once again missed the connection between the FRAME PERIMETER definition in section one and the bumper rules in section five. As I stated earlier, we also tried to investigate by going to the head inspector and we were told we could compete because nobody had shown them the rules that made our robot illegal either and they had not made the connection. This was not a case of "We'll cross that bridge when we get there, for now let's use an illegal robot.", we simply didn't see the connection that made the frame illegal in the first place. I had remembered discussions on both the Q&A and these forums, but without the rule declaring our mechanism illegal, I could see how our coaches wouldn't follow a memory blindly.