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Originally Posted by bduddy
Not enforcing the rules is unfair to the teams that invested a lot of time and effort into following them, let alone those that may have compromised some aspects of a design.
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That is one of my pet peeves as a RI. I submitted a suggestion to First that they have 2 levels of inspection: Inspected for Qualifications, and Inspected for Elimination.
If a team's chassis is 1/2 inch bigger than transport configuration, do you want to prevent them from any competition (very hard to reduce chassis size by 1/2 inch in a short amount of time)? In that instance, I think you pass them for Qualifications, but DQ them for Eliminations. That way, they can participate, but not be unfair to the other teams that built within the rules.
As a Ref, I had a similar attitude: Very lenient at the beginning of qualifications, and getting more and more strict as the tournament progressed. Ideally, by the last match we are playing Elimination rules so if a team is disabled, the other teams have notice regarding the risk of picking that team for the Elimination Round.