Streamlining Inspection

[sevisehda]

FIRST is coming to the point where its impossible to thouroghly inspect each bot. Fursther during parts of the inspection there are rumors teams cheat by either weighing in with a dummy battery, removing pieces, or other things. What are some ideas people have had when it comes to streamlining this process?

My idea is simple(actually I stole it from the olympics). Initial inspection is basic, a quick weighin plus a check on size. Then teams are done with the initial inspection. Once qualifying rounds are complete the top seeded teams who choose aliiances are re-inspected. Immediately after there last match its reweighed and measured, plus inspectors go over the bot, and documentation(budget). The procees of reinpecting also happens right before the championship round.

The concept is simple. Rely on everyone obeying the rules(and in an environment like FIRST) there shouldn't be anyone cheating. Just as the Olympics only drug tests those who won medals, FIRST would only inspect those who did very well. If its found a team has been cheating then they are DQed.

DQing may sound harsh but if a team questions whether something is legal or not they will more than enough time to ask.

I'd like to here other suggestions or at the very least have people tear my ideas to shreds.