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Originally Posted by rich2202
If you have mechanical tendencies, I recommend also volunteering as a Robot Inspector for the 1st day (or 2/3rds of the first day). During the first day, they can use all the RI's they can get. Not much to do as a Ref during the practice rounds when few robots show up. During that time, they can use RI's to get robots passed inspection. If you are doing multiple competitions, then you don't need the Ref practice the first day.
When I am Ref'ng, I don't call RI type faults, but I will tell an RI what I see so they can follow up.
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This is what I've done for the past several years. I'll RI for the first day, and then ref for the following two. Luckily enough for me, I'm just out of college and still have the energy to do it, and I love it. Our volunteers are all like family at my home regional, so I get to see a bit of everyone.
Also, during ref times, the head ref usually asks me to just keep a general eye out for RI faults that are major while teams are queuing or getting on the field. So that we can try to get those taken care of and let the team still compete in their match
