[David Brinza]

I've inspected in many regional events (especially in week 1 or 2) where virtually no robots were ready for inspection after un-crating, maybe a handful were inspected by noon, and late Thurs afternoon/evening became a panic for many teams. Inspectors would practically beg teams to undergo partial inspection (especially size and weight) as early as possible. Last year, early surveys of bumpers by inspectors frequently caught problems in time for teams to make fixes before Friday. On Thursday afternoon, inspectors are somtimes provided a list of teams in the first 5-6 matches, just to make sure these teams will be ready to play on Friday morning.

My point is that changing how inspection rules or how they are done won't "wave a magic wand" to correct the real problem: many teams just aren't ready for inspection on Thursday. If qual matches are going to start on Thursday, then unless some paradigm shift occurs, there will be some non-compliant robots scheduled for matches. If teams put robots on the field that have not been fully inspected and are later found to be non-compliant, should they be DQ'd for those matches?