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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis
We don't deal with "most likely"'s. If a team makes a small wiring change, it won't show up on the scale... but it could have serious side effects. If a team removed their shooter to use on their practice bot and then put it back on, it won't show up on the scale... but they may have attached it wrong and it's sticking outside their frame perimeter now. Weight isn't everything, it only indicates big changes that were made, not small ones. And all it takes is one small change to short a wire to your chassis or have your robot die on the field.
Inspectors know to get to them when the team comes up and tells us they're ready to be inspected. I've always seen inspections handled on a "first come, first served" basis - whoever comes up first gets an inspector in their pit first. The teams who have already been to a regional and been inspected should be the first ones in line, but often they (and a lot of other teams) lollygag around and don't come up to inspections, causing a delay themselves. The concept of an "express line" would give teams fortunate enough to attend multiple events a larger, unfair advantage over other teams who may be ready for inspections at that particular event first.
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Okay -- don't want to get into a debate, but. I never said they would not get inspected. Exact weight is an indicator of no change. Practice bot -- most of us do not have that luxury, but incorrect instalation would be corrected if found to be a problem.....
You need to be aware of how every regional operates before making assumptions. We get wieghed before 9:00am and have to wait until after noon to get inspected in our pits because of teams having problems passing that have not been inspected before -- there is a problem with that.
The fact is that the inspection process is flawed and needs to be fixed -- I do not have the answers, but was passing on suggestions made by a very good inspector at our regional. This system could work. People just need to be open to admitting that what is being done is not working well.