[Kevin Sevcik]

One thing that would be extra helpful is if the GDC/HQ could release the Inspection Checklist sometime earlier than a few days before shipping. I'm thinking something like the same day the robot rules are released. We run a pair of rookie bootcamps during the season, and it's hard to impress ALL the robot rules on rookie teams in the space of a few hours. I think thinks would be a bit smoother if we could hand them a draft version of the checklist and tell them to run their robot through it once a week. I just can't understand why it takes them nearly 6 weeks to release the checklist when having it earlier would be so useful.

Similarly, I was talking with EricVanWyk Friday morning at Alamo, and he was proposing that the regional distribute match schedules Thursday at lunch. To light fires under teams and their potential allies when they all realize that this is real. Nothing like the prospect of Match 1 without your robot on the field to get some teams moving.