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Originally Posted by FrankJ
You are right. T10 is the rule addressing modification. I guess the question is when is a repair a modification? What about software that affects appendages? Anyway going with your definition we should scratch pretty much all the teams that qualified for worlds with the robot? (insert friendly sarcasm smiley here) If you are calling every change a modification, I guess that would include bent frames & damage from the competition. The rabbit hole gets deep fast.
The rules should be read with this in mind.
Even so the process needs to be better defined so teams know what qualifies as an re-inspection & when is it really required.
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Just to be clear, we're on the same side of this issue. I would never ever want that to be the way the rules are enforced and it's not the way I teach my team to follow them. I'm just saying it's a very slippery slope if we were to start enforcing re-inspection after every "modification".
The pre-elimination weight check is a great way to ensure safety and keep everyone one on an equal playing field, it gives inspectors a chance to completely look over the robot again.
The rule set should make it clear that we (the entire organization that makes up FIRST) trusts teams to do the right thing but at any point an inspector can reinspect a robot. Large changes should go through re-inspection but the rule set should allow repairs and minor legal modifications. This is another one of those times where the rules being enforced aren't the ones that are in the rule book.