[Ken Leung]

I wonder if FIRST will have enough resource and man power at regional to implement this petition process...

I can see a lot of robots being damaged by the nature of the game, so FIRST will need someone at the regional to handle a lot of petitions. That person will need to look at the damaged parts, listen to teams about how the damages happened. A lot of this will happen during or after finals because that's when most damages happen. There will be a long line of people applying for petition before they ship the robot to the next competition.

Also, FIRST will need to inspect the robot before and after to make sure the teams don't make changes for: "my robot needs mechanism X so that it can win the Grand Championship." Not sure how the logistic will work if those teams are going to a different part of the country.

Not trying to be picky about a good suggestion, because it IS a good suggestion. Just that we should come up with something easiest for FIRST and reasonable for them to implement it, to have the best chances for FIRST to actually accept the suggestion and make it happen.