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Re: A disturbing trend?

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Originally Posted by bfvaneyck View Post
I noticed this problem last year at the regionals. This year we brought along four spare flag holders. We gave out one of them Friday morning at the Wisconsin regional.
We brought 8 (I think) extra flag holders to Peachtree this year. They were all gone within 2 minutes of having an announcement made in the pits Thursday morning, and we could have given out another dozen.

Teams not reading the rules seems to be the biggest problem. Most of the teams that went through inspection early at Peachtree had already been to another regional. There were a lot of teams that didn't have team numbers on all 4 sides, used illegal parts from previous years kits, didn't have flag holders, etc.

We would have inspected earlier, but we forgot to charge the battery for the USB-Chicklet so we had to wait until we had working controls. However, we did go over early and get on the scale, and found out we had to either lose an inch of height or 1.1 lbs of weight (a miscalculation had resulted in our being 49" tall). We spend the time waiting for the battery to charge cutting the bottom inch off of our arm support column. We were very glad we didn't wait until late afternoon to get weighed the first time.

I encourage all teams to weigh and size as early on Thursday as possible. An unpleasant supprise at 9:30 is not nearly as unpleasant as it is at 5:30.