Much to my surprise, the biggest problem with inspections were teams forgetting to bring their Bill of Materials. At least 7 out of 40 teams at SVR had this problem. Mostly they weren't rookies. In some cases, this was their second regional!

The second biggest problem were bumpers. Read the*!&# rules! Pool noodles
means pool noodles, plywood back means plywood back, easily removed means .......



Alan Federman, Lead Robot Inspector, SVR, Davis.