Al's Annual Inspection Thread 2015

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Karthik

I'm very confused here. On one hand we have the game manual saying that we're allowed to perform minor disassmembly to fit into the Transportation Configuration, while on the other hand the Chief Robot Inspector for FIRST is saying that it's illegal. Normally I'd just go with the manual, but as I've been told many times on this forum the Lead Robot Inspector is the final authority at events. If there's been a rule change from what's written in the manual to disallow minor disassembly I'd like to know as soon as possible and I also would like to know why this hasn't been addressed in a Team Update.

I agree with Karthik. No inspector has the authority to override the Manual.*

Let me put it this way: Right now, my team is considering pinning an item or two onto our robot. Push item onto robot, push pin in, compete, remove pin, remove item and stick in robot, away we go. If minor disassembly is not allowed, we will have to add or modify a full subsystem to accomplish the same task. In one week. It would have been nice to know this, say, two weeks ago.

I also agree that we'll probably hear back either from Al or from an Update very shortly.

*If an inspector (or ref, or field staff) does override the Manual, we can usually expect a blog post in apology if it's anything like a major incident, and a Q&A clarifying if it's not a major incident.