[EricH]

Had a rookie team in Arizona this year, in great position for the inspectors to watch them. They come out of the crate--and I'm thinking, there is no way that they'll pass inspection. Obvious ball control mechanisms above the bumper zone, active no less, and their bumper was a piece of PVC covered with something that wasn't pool noodle and was held on by wires. To their advantage, they had used the kit frame and a lot of VEX metal.

1013 showed up and spent all day Thursday getting them more legal. Sometime around noon on Friday, they passed.

Oh, and the Arizona pits were held open an extra half-hour on Thursday, to let us finish the teams in the inspection line. Friday morning, we still had two teams who hadn't started. They both got partials before the pits opened on a visual inspection.