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Re: 2011 Lesson Learned: The Negative

I've commented on Champs elsewhere, so more generally, I think inspection still needs some work. Specifically, I think things tend to get overlooked or given a pass in the name of getting robots on the field and letting teams play. Which is fine and all, but a bit irksome to teams that actually try to comply with the rules. I've since forgotten things I noticed at the regionals, but I recall a team in Curie running with black bumpers when they were a blue team. Black bumpers with red numbers.

Something's wrong with inspections if a team apparently gets passed out of a regional with illegal bumpers and without a note that they need fixing. And then gets passed through inspections at Championships with, presumably, the same illegal bumpers.

I know inspectors are busy and have a lot to do, but I still find it hard to believe a team was playing at Champs with such a blatantly illegal robot.
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