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Originally Posted by pyroslev
I imagined any team that went to a previous week regional would have been able to shortcut things a bit but seeing the explanation that makes sense. Could a remedy to that be that when teams going to further events the Robot Inspectors sign the bag form with a copy of the inspection sheet? If not this season, then next season. I imagined the teams that went to previous events could inspected by noon at least if this were implemented.
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This isn't satisfactory, unfortunately. Teams make changes during an event that aren't always reinspected (the team doesn't ask for a reinspection, and the change isn't necessarily obvious). The teams make hold back 30 lbs from their robot between events and make changes to that as well. Additionally, you have the trouble of inspectors missing stuff... FIRST does the best it can to train inspectors, but there simply isn't enough time available for the
volunteers to be trained to a point of uniformity. So, something might get missed by one inspector, and found by another. I've seen it happen while at an event - a team passes inspection, but then another inspector finds an issue while looking at their robot in the queuing line.
Passing the inspection sheet from one event to another simply isn't going to work. And frankly, teams that have already been to an event and passed inspection once can pass it again very quickly as is - At North Star last year there were a few teams that had passed before 9:30, as they could start the process as soon as the robot came out of the bag, knowing they had passed previously and had no changes to make.
The biggest problem we have with inspections isn't getting teams to pass. It's getting teams to come up to
start the inspection process early! Those who start early almost always pass early as well.
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Originally Posted by Siri
This answer seems odd, given that some events are making everyone cover their wheels and others are making no one. If inspectors are getting specific guidance, could it be shared publicly? If not, has anyone noticed the patterns in design parameters, as the GDC indicates?
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As the response you quoted indicates, the decision is up to the LRI as to what constitutes "safe" on a robot. If the GDC gave the inspectors a clear-cut definition of "safe" with regards to shooter wheels, they would have given it to the teams as well. There have been plenty of threads and posts here outlining the concern over exposed shooter wheels - take a look at your mechanism and see if any of those concerns apply to you. If so, address the concern to make your robot safer... I've never seen an inspector request a team to
remove a safety shield.