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Originally Posted by Mr V
Then either the LRI at your week 6 event wasn't keeping up on things and/or the event coordinator for your week 6 did not bring the case of black tanks to the event. I know in the case of the PNW DCMP there was confusion on the part of the event coordinator as to what that case he received was for and it couldn't be located initially. Thankfully we had a lot of them left over from the week 5 and week 6 events and I thought to bring some of those to DCMP just in case there were teams that had only competed in weeks 1-4. We did have a couple show up with the 2013 Clippard tanks so I went out to my car and grabbed the ones I had brought.
Note we were not told to swap out any 2013 tank that teams brought to the competition just that we were required to swap out any that they had on the robot.
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I can guarantee the LRI's at both those events were keeping up on things. One was Big Al, the other was a long time division LRI at champs. It is possible, however, that the tanks were just missed by the inspectors at the event. Sometimes teams stick their tanks in places that make it very hard to see, if you have a rookie inspector looking at their robot who doesn't notice it.
The tanks were NOT illegal last year. That said, LRI's strongly pressured teams to swap them out with the provided black tanks at events, and I know no teams at North Star last year have me any pushback about swapping it. It probably helped that I had most of the pieces from the tank that exploded in Duluth in week 2 with me
