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A disturbing trend?
Two years ago, at the SoCal regional, virtually all of the robots completed inspection on Thursday. Last year, there were half a dozen teams that didn't pass inspection until Friday morning. This year at the LA Regional, only about half of the teams had completed their robot inspections by time the pits closed on Thursday night! The robot inspectors scrambled early Friday to get the robots for the first three qualifying matches inspected before the opening ceremonies. Inspections were on-going throughout most of Friday and one team didn't get onto the field until Saturday morning.
Size and weight issues, improper wiring (i.e. missing distribution blocks, incorrect wire guages), missing or non-compliant bicycle flag holders, and sharp edges were the most frequent reasons for teams failing inspection. We also saw teams with missing pneumatic components, illegal motors, and even last year's transmission.
Is this unique to the LA Regional or have so many teams had inspection problems in the other early regionals?
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