Need for Inspections Rules Changes

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Don Wright

I don't think this is a valid point since you didn't have to be inspected by 2 or 3pm, so there was no drive for everyone to do so.

I would love to see some statistics on how many teams weren't inspected by their first match Friday in both the traditional Regionals and at Michigan districts last year. We are already almost there in MI with only Friday morning for practice and start Quals right after. What was the failure to pass inspection rate in MI compared to the rest of the regions last year? Do we even have this info?

Well, if you wanted extra practice you had to be inspected by noon...

At L.A., I can only think of 2-3 teams that didn't make their first match, not including one that was initially turned back by queuing because they didn't have the sticker saying they had a full inspection, which was on its way. Those teams were either doing a full rebuild or were having trouble building. Only one of those missed more than one, IIRC.

Now, if we're talking didn't pass by about 4 PM on Thursday, then you're talking about half of the regional; about third of the teams had BOM issues that had them waiting until Friday to finish. A number of other teams had relatively minor issues that took them 15 minutes to fix.