2015 Gitchi Gummi Get Together

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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

Question for you guys... based on that schedule, what are your expectations for inspection? There really isn't much time to do much - if we assume 30 teams attending and 10 inspectors, we could probably get it done in the hour between pits open and opening ceremonies, assuming all teams were ready for inspections at the start. And I would love to have 10 volunteers as inspectors there! We need to work on training up more and more volunteers, and (obviously) my area of concern is inspection. If at all possible, I'd love to run any inspectors through plenty of training over the course of the event (in fact, if you have a couple of old robots laying around gathering dust, we could use them for visual aids in training)!

Jon, we plan on doing an "on your honor" system. We are going to trust teams to get inspected if they have made any changes since their last official event. We know that by this time of the year the robots have seen quite a bit of use and may have some rough repairs just to keep them going. If teams are running new mechanisms then they are expected to grab an inspector just to get it checked out. We have a few volunteers locally already who have experience with inspecting at official events who will doing these inspections. However, of course you are welcome to come to the GGGT and be the official LRI for the event. Email the team for more info if you want to do this so we can get you all set up with the details.