900's Championship Cheesecaking Chronicles

[Jon Stratis]

As one of the inspectors responsible for the final inspection of this contraption, I can say with certainty that all teams were fully involved with the inspection portion - there was no indication at all that any team was getting pushed around or told to stand in the corner while the big boys worked - it looked like a true, collaborative effort.

As far as the inspection went... It was a long inspection. There were a few things to fix - a couple of lbs of weight, some pneumatic plumbing issues, and a software version issue come to mind - but the teams eagerly complied and got to work getting everything fixed. The bill of materials did look hastily put together, but the entire thing was! In ordinary circumstances (ie initial inspection at an event), I would have made the team go back and spend a little time beefing it up to be more like what everyone expects. In this situation though, while they did need to have a BOM it wouldn't be fair to delay them and keep them off Einstein because it wasn't professional looking enough.

I attached a pic of the inspection process, sent to me by Jake Fischer, who I happened to run into Saturday evening after ceremonies were over. You can see, we didn't take inspection of this lightly - not with 4 LRI's participating and looking at it!