FRC Qual Rounds on Thursday @ Championship

[BrendanB]

The biggest issues with getting past inspection at Championships are teams making significant changes to their design and holding off to inspect until minor issues are ironed out: ball handling/kicker modifications, code, autonomous, stuff like that. Teams who uncrate a working robot with little to no changes to be made have no excuse to wait for inspection. Also, this is Championships, FIRST is probably expecting teams to be ready for competition with many teams competing at two events this year. But are robots ever perfect, no. I like having more qualification matches, but I think we can deal with having less time for inspections and changes if there are more inspectors and if teams are proactive about getting done/inspected.

What I wish they would allow teams to do is give us more time on Wednesday night to uncrate and set up our pits/unpack so everyone is set to go bright and early Thursday morning. I believe they allow teams to bring stuff in Wednesday, but no pit assembly can be done which in my mind wastes time Thursday morning when we have to organize the pit before working on our robot. It might not seem like a ton of time, but it is work that could have been done the night before.

Just my thoughts, but am still excited for more matches on Thursday!