For your consideration

[dtengineering]

Well, I don't know if this is the best way of doing it... but something really does need to be done to help teams out... perhaps they have to pass a test before having access to the online KoP orders.

Certainly rules on robot sizing need to be at the forefront of every team's mind.

I inspected one team (bumper perimeter and weight were fine) but the "top half" of their robot exceeded the bumper perimeter, and the response was, "Oh, man... we were oversize last year, too."

Auuuuugh!

This was not fun for me... it feels awful to tell someone that they have to slice their robot apart... they would have had so much more fun if someone had forced them to read the rules and UNDERSTAND the rules in advance.

Really the quiz could just focus on size, weight, and main power switch placement. Just about everything else can be hacked together reasonably easily.

Jason