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I think maybe the queuing people could serve in a role of default inspectors. As i was doing queuing in SoCal, SV and Nat's, I noticed robots coming by with more and more obviously illegal materials as the day progressed. I think that FIRST should gave the queing ppl the power to refer teams back for re-inspection or better yet assign one inspector to assist the queuing team on each side. That way teams would be able to be inspected numerous times right before they compete.
Additionally, i think FIRST should have a sort of system where teams could report violations of the rules and get them checked out.
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Sean....I think this sounds like a great solution! I have thought many times that the queing people would serve this role well.
Though my team wasn't at Nats, our lead engineer and I went with 234 to help and observe. As we walked around the many pits at Nats, we were shocked at all of the very obvious illegal objects on several robots. It's one thing to slip something in that isn't obvious and not get caught, but to have something that EVERYONE can see that's illegal and not get "caught" is amazing! Both are wrong, but surely someone from FIRST could have stopped the very obvious ones as they came through.
It's like they turn their heads and shut their eyes to these things.
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