Need for Inspections Rules Changes

[BrendanB]

In 2008 our team shipped our hurdling robot, we needed to add a few stickers, and trim off part of our tusks on our robot, which we knew would have to be trimmed to pass inspection, but we wanted to know exactly what needed to come off as we wanted to keep as much of it on. And we were 35lbs under weight. Yes, our robot wasn't perfect and we worked like crazy to get it done for ship but it didn't need much on Thursday

I'm not saying that everyone needs to have stay on perfect schedule(we certainly didn't) or have a perfect robot un-crated Thursday. Everyone, including my team, will have to say in week 5, "what will have to go in order to have a working robot by 4PM on Thursday to be ready for our first qualification matches". That is what FIRST is asking for. If you ship your robot and say, "it will need only a few adjustments thursday." Your fine. But if you need to do a total rebuild, then you're going to have problems with making inspection.

Veteran teams for 5+ years will be expected to be ready to go on Thursday early afternoon, and yes there will be teams especially rookies that will need to do a lot on thursday. But if this is what FIRST is going to do to get the 10 matches in then that's what happens.