[Don Wright]

Coming from a team that is notorious for finishing our robots on Thursday (sometimes Friday, sometimes the Thursday after winning a regional when we completely change our robot) I can tell you that we NEVER plan to do this.

We always plan to have the robot done in plenty of time to practice at our scrimmage, take nice pre-ship pics of the robot, etc... But, we also always push our limit every year. That's just the way we are. The format in Michigan helped us somewhat this year with the "Thursday"...but we still had lots of work to do at Cass Tech.

I think the idea of a "pre-inspection" the Saturday before "ship date" is a nice one, but as some have noted, this could be a problem for some teams due to logistics. But, here is the question: what happens if teams "fail" this pre-inspection? Do they get kicked out of their upcoming competition? Or is it more of just an informative inspection?