Hmmm. Some good points here:
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Originally Posted by meaubry
Possible process improvements that could be considered -
1) Thursday after lunch or a designated time 2:30pm? - NON-Passed robots list provided to Head Ref. - No practice allowed for robots that have not passed inspection
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Then the afternoon sessions could have caught up on time as we did in the morning sessions - combining 2 practice sessions into one, and still having only 5 bots total on the field!
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2) Friday morning - Hot sheet listing all non-passed robots provided to Head Ref. or designee and its used to assure teams that have not passed cannot participate
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Does the ref not see the whiteboard at the inspection station?
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3) Qualify points for non-passed robots that miss their match should be 0 regardless if they were on the winning alliance and their record should not include wins, losses or ties - if they do not participate in the match.
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This is particularly interesting, because the team in question benefitted from just such a match - the one in which the 1-on-3 robot won.
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4) All conditional passes should be approved prior to participation by all teams participating at the event - Conditional approved robot list shared at Drivers meeting and vote by show of hands - thus eliminating any discussion of preferential treatment - lets put GP to a real test.
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No. We've seen too many instances where the desire to win has overwhelmed GP. (E.g., Ron's anecdotes about alliances at GLR, when the game scores were possibly mixed up.)
FWIW, another team which was in the top 8 in Detroit (and were picked by a higher seed) came out of the box at 139 lbs Thursday morning. They made weight.
I will agree that inspection is a difficult task. The various inspectors have differing aspects of inspection that are stressed - just as judges have differing opinions on what makes a team a trophy winner. The fact that all teams in the finals must be reinspected says something - that things may have changed since passing inspection.
Would random spot-check inspections throughout the weekend be feasible? Every hour or so a team is chosen at random to be resized or reweighed; maybe another look is taken at electrical, pneumatics, etc. Kinda like the random drug tests for athletes - the theory is that teams will comply because they have the chance of being caught. Whether it is a deliberate breach or an unintentional oversight, teams in error will have to correct their ways.