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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz
I would like to start a thread for inspection issues but I want to be sure it doesn't turn into something nasty. Please watch for it.
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At Championship, we were passed with only a cursory inspection.* The inspector, who will remain unnamed, spent at most sixty seconds looking at our robot, and barely glanced at the BOM. Our bumpers were on, and frame perimeter was not checked -- nor was bumper height. Nor was grounding on the camera or the CRio. Nor, nor, nor... A few cursory glances and the actual question, "Well, this all passed at your regional, right?" was just about it.**
...and yet other teams were missing games because of inspection issues.
So a negative that FIRST can do better with this year is to expand Wednesday beyond 6-9pm to allow for real inspections, and real time to work to get into compliance for teams that need it.
*I am certain we would have passed even with a very thorough inspection, as we were put through the ringer at FLR. (This is not a complaint. The inspector at FLR was very, very thorough, just as he should have been.)
**We were asked to move our on/off breaker switch, but we were given our sticker before we had done so. We did it anyway.