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Re: 2014 Orlando Regional

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Originally Posted by Nuttyman54 View Post

In my opinion, the entire thing gets hung up on what is or is not an "inspection", what process the teams and inspectors are supposed to go through to get re-inspected, and ensuring that both the team and the inspectors involved are on the same page as to what is being agreed upon.
I think it boils down to this. From the chatter at the regional, because it wasn't clear if that configuration was allowed, and they had to call FIRST HQ to find out. (of course this is all hearsay). But this was done AFTER the two matches were played and then the DQ'ed happened.

This was a terrible situation that happened, and I'm hoping that the rules will be a lot more clear about what's allowed and what's not allowed when it comes down to final matches and configurations.

I want to thank the volunteers for their time and effort and it isn't easy having to judge so many matches. I personally know one of them, and can say that he is a wonderful teacher (ret.). All because of him, I got introduced to FIRST and my life has changed since then. Thanks Tom Higgins!