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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber
Did you read what he said? He is saying that he is not blaming anyone. He is merely remarking on some issues he had.
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Sorry, I read exactly what he said. Looked like to me he was asking a question. The last sentence in his paragraph 1), Post#14:
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Originally Posted by Icancountto19
Why is something like this just now being pointed out to us.
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My point was that it WAS pointed out to him as soon as anyone noticed it. Just because the volunteer inspectors didn't notice it earlier is no reason to get upset when it's found. Anything you can do to make the inspections more complete and uniform would be great. Unfortunately, you're dealing with volunteers who may be inexperienced and have limited time to devote to studying and analyzing the rules. In the real world, some things ARE going to get by the inspectors no matter what you do. The inspections are NOT going to be perfectly consistent from one inspector to the next around the world.
If you feel it's necessary and it bothers you, then you have the option of bringing any discrepancies to the offending team or the inspectors attention. My team would thank you for pointing out anywhere we've inadvertently broken a rule. However, my experience has been that anything that gets by the inspectors is not worth worrying about. The competition itself is not the point of FIRST.
Your best bet is to know the rules yourself and be able to document anything on your robot to the lead inspector if necessary.
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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber
Now, if you are one of those people that refuse to admit that FIRST can do any wrong and claims that it is perfect
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LMAO! You obviously don't know me!
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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber
I will personally admit that I dropped the ball by missing those rules. Not my team, not the inspectors, ME. Now that assigning blame is done (as it was 2 days ago) can we accept that and move on to help us find solutions to these problems?
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What other solution can you imagine other than "read the rules", as has been pointed out many times on this thread? There is NEVER going to be perfect inspections for every team. Have more than one person read them and check the robot against them as often as possible. It's much easier to change something to comply while you're at home in your shop, rather than the day of inspection at the competition.
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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber
You have insulted my team with your comments but more importantly you have insulted my brother.
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Sorry if you took anything as an insult. It wasn't meant to be.