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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik
If an inspector passes a robot that's actually illegal, is the team still liable for being illegal?
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Technically the little blurb at the bottom of the inspection sheet in 2 pt font reads
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We, the Team Mentor and Team Captain, attest by our signing below, that our team’s robot was built after the 2014 Kickoff on January 4, 2014 and in accordance with
all of the 2014 FRC rules, including all Fabrication Schedule rules. We have conducted our own inspection and determined that our robot satisfies all of the 2014 FRC
rules for robot design.
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Of course when that was signed the robot was in a different configuration, and the team honestly believed they were following the rules or they wouldn't have done it. Did the people who made the DQ ruling know an inspector had approved of the modifications? Escalating to a DQ for a team that followed the correct process is the wrong decision. Most volunteer screwups result in a field fault and a replay.
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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik
Also, for all my years in FRC, and my brief stint as inspector and LRI, I don't think I've ever seen any sort of re-inspection form or document. Or any real system for recording this. I've always gone with brief re-inspections and verbal okays from our inspectors before, and everyone's word has always been good enough. If we're going to have to get all bureaucratic about it, I think a lot of inspectors are going to get very annoyed in the coming weeks.
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I've been an inspector and an LRI this year and that is how we did it. There is no additional form. If our initial was on your sticker we crossed you off our list and you were elimination legal. We pulled two teams out of queue that had made changes; scolded, weighed and measured them with a visual once over and sent them back to the queue.