[Peter Matteson]

Don,
You summed up a conversation that my team has every year. We follow a rule exactly the way it is written even if it is our to our own detriment. We make a point every year to teach this to the new kids on the team.

Without fail every year I see teams that clearly don't follow rules and in some cases get rewarded for it. There always seems to be a few rules that teams just ignore and get away with. I'll leave it at that.

At the same time, when inspecting, I have seen teams that miss something simple that doesn't effect the robot's performance like using green wire for negative wiring because it's what they had. I hated telling them they had to re-wire the negative on their robot, but they realized they made a mistake and fixed it. These don't bother me that much, it the ones where an advantage is gained that bother me.