Rules that are [not] getting called at Regionals, the +s and -s

[Pat Fairbank]

Originally Posted by robochik52

Also, there were a couple of robots that had an illegal shooter, but were still allowed to compete. They had their shooter completely exposed, with their wheel spinning at high velocities with no shielding. Personally, I think this is really dangerous, and something should have been done.

Yes. We went to BAE expecting that the inspectors would want us to better shield our shooter, and we hadn't done anything about it up to that point because we wanted to know what they would consider adequate shielding. I was therefore shocked when shielding wasn't even mentioned during the inspection.

There was also a conspicuous lack of shooter speed testing at BAE. I don't even know if they had a testing mechanism on site; I sure didn't spot anything that might have looked like one.