I’m not seeing the provision for allowing robot pre-inspection after Bag Day (supervised by an LRI) this year. Am I missing the rule section? Or, was this removed for 2019? I am a huge fan. So, if it was removed i’ll be working on getting it reinstated in one of the updates. Any opinions either way?
I didn’t see it either. That said, I pre-inspected about 60 robots last year during week zero, and 0 robots after bag day. No teams asked me for a pre-inspection after bag day. I heard of teams utilizing it in other areas, particularly in districts where they could get pre-inspected at events surrounding district events they weren’t attending.
My view on it is… complicated. I really like the idea of being able to pre-inspect robots to give teams information they need to be successful at events. But at the same time, I wasn’t going to drive 5 hours to pre-inspect a team, and I doubt they would drive 5 hours to me just for that as well. So it’s rather limiting based on the availability of an LRI in your area. Here in MN, I’d say roughly half of our teams are far enough away to make pre-inspection after bag day difficult… and with 8 week-0 events to pre-inspect robots at, we see most of them a few days before bagging anyways.