[Mike Martus]

Sounds like the GLR Regional. I was an inspector there among a very veteran crew led by Dan K, lead inspector. We made every effort at inspecting from opening moment of Thursday, doing partials if possible. By the close of Thursday 1/3 ( about 20) of the teams had not completed a full inspection. This seems more than last year.

I observed many robots that were like ststed in earlier posts, not asembled with many hours of work to be done.

What hurts is that in the rush on Friday morning I feel the inspection is not of the same quality, everything is hurry up get it done. Safety is number 1 and cannot be rushed. All robots should follow the rules and conform to the specifications however we disagree with them. They are the rules we must ALL follow.

It is very stressful to get a robot designed and built within 6 weeks, we all understand that. Teams need to look at their resources and build within their constraints of time and $$$$$.

Hey teams..... writing the BOM on scrap paper from your head is not cool.