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Originally Posted by magnets
Before the championship, the LRI/all the inspectors have a conference call with FIRST, and they go over what's legal and not legal. That's how the robot inspectors knew that 118 was illegal in 2012. With the three robots (1114, 67, and 236), I'd be willing to bet the GDC must have seen a picture of one of them at least, and if the bumpers were illegal, they'd let the CMP/Michigan championship inspectors know they were no good.
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And there still could have been a mistake made. Trust me. I've seen a situation where someone who should have been on all the conference calls and been at all the trainings and all that made a mistake--and just about everybody knew it was a mistake, except this one person--and it was pretty blatantly obvious from the Manual that it was a mistake. The mess created by the aftermath of that one resulted in three extra teams at Champs that year from that event. Stuff happens.
Besides the fact that the GDC does not rule on specific designs, only provides input to the people that do make those rulings when asked...
Either way, I think this needs clarification. I don't have Q&A access as anything more than an observer; anybody who does want to ask? Q268, I see as angled with respect to "we want our bumpers to slant towards the robot"; Q199 (the first part) appears to be "we would like our bumpers to go from 10" down to 7, is this legal" or some equivalent, and thus addressed by the blue box. That's the one to follow up on--but don't bring 2013 into it, because that'll simply get a "last year's rules have no effect on this year" response from the GDC and we'll get no other clarification.
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