Inspection process

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Originally Posted by edomus

If your robot is not ready on thursday can you still get it checked friday morning or thursday afternoon or is it too late?

Yes, you can be inspected Thursday night (before the pits close) or on Friday before your first match.. Thursday is reccomended!!!
One less thing to worry about on Friday during actual competition.

But if you are not inspected and your first Friday match comes up, then you are not going on that field no matter what!

Inspection is generally defined as:

A Weigh-In / Dimension Check
and
A Robot Safety Checklist (Electrical and mechanical) / Required Elements to be classified as a ROBOT Checklist (Battery - OI - Little Battery)

They will do the inspection in your pits more than likely so you can quickly change something if they see something wrong.
The Weigh IN and Robot Dimension Check will take place in a seperate location than your team pit.

There is a scale and a Lexan Box of the max. dimension of the robot in the Pits to do these tests in.

I think the inspection stickers are new this year. They initial it after they go over the checklist and the weight and size is proven to be acceptable.

Our team was caught on this on Thursday. We got our sticker and were signed off, then another judge came over just to admire our Shimmy mechanism and noticed that we did not have the back-up battery in place.
Apparently that is a new requirement this year - to have that on your robot as well as the full size battery!
Oops... We put it on and were good to go!