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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis
Thursday morning is when us LRI's train the inspectors. I usually have 2-3 inspectors who I'm confident know what they're doing taking care of Bag and Tag stuff, while all the other inspectors are huddled up with me being trained on what to look for - I can't afford to have all my inspectors checking tags on robots that were already loaded in, and helping other teams load in... we wouldn't be able to get to the training until later, and that would push back when we could start inspecting robots.
From my experience, setting up the pit is not the reason we have trouble getting everyone inspected. With a few exceptions, almost every pit I've seen can be set up in 15 mins or less. The issue with inspections are teams that show up late, teams that haven't finished building their robot, veteran teams that are too self-assured and just put it off because they can and teams that are focused on functionality (usually programming).
I know I've seen my own team work on autonomous programming until 4PM before they've finally gotten sick of me asking when they're going to get inspected and they actually start their inspection. It's not a question of teams not having enough time, and honestly... if we let teams set up earlier it won't help with inspections - work expands to fill available time. It's a question of priorities, and teams mistakenly see other items as being more important than passing inspection.
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I agree, these suggestion probably won't help inspection and that's not the goal. Forcing a full inspection to practice after 4pm might help inspection but again not the point of these changes. The goal should be to put a better product out on the field and in the pits to inspire our communities and change the culture.
Also can we just stop checking bag and tag at this point. If people wanted to cheat they would cheat and there is little we can do about it other than building a culture that has higher standards than that. We aren't finding and pushing the people that are cheating. We are punishing teams that honestly make a mistake with some artificial time penalty of having to get a few signatures and a stern talking to. Why do we even bother? Who does this process help? We have the ability to be a different program. We have the opportunity to set higher standards of trust and respect among competitors and checking bag and tag doesn't help do that.