Here is what was posted in the early nomination process.
The job of the Advisory Panel is to discuss topics among W.E.ROCK, the teams, and themselves. Once it becomes clear that there is a majority opinion or an idea worth pursuing, the panel will delegate one or more of it's members to put together a simple recommendation of how the rule or specification should be. That is then submitted to W.E.ROCK and if there are no unexpected or not-considered issues and the suggestion works within the event structure for fairness, safety, and logistics, then W.E.ROCK will integrate it immediatly. If there are issues that W.E.ROCK finds, the subject will be thrown back to the panel with the reasons for non-acceptance, and the panel can re-visit it themselves to find a solution, or take it back to the teams to find a solution.
In all cases, W.E.ROCK has the final say and has the right to deny suggestions if they choose. However, in the super high majority of cases, the advice of the panel will be taken and integrated.
Jason, most of these rules just need a visit and some understanding of why W.E.ROCK has proceeded as it has, and seperately, why the teams would like it to be a certain way. Somewhere in there, we'll find a solution that makes sense. There are some things, liabilitywise, that we'd LOVE to mandate, but cannot. in those cases, we just need to find a way to cover the safety the best we can, without putting the santioning at too high of a risk law-suit-wise. This seating topic is one of those situations where we know what we would like to mandate, but cannot...our hands are tied, so let's look for another solution. If we do not find one, then at least we tried and gathered info for possible use in the future.
The job of the Advisory Panel is to discuss topics among W.E.ROCK, the teams, and themselves. Once it becomes clear that there is a majority opinion or an idea worth pursuing, the panel will delegate one or more of it's members to put together a simple recommendation of how the rule or specification should be. That is then submitted to W.E.ROCK and if there are no unexpected or not-considered issues and the suggestion works within the event structure for fairness, safety, and logistics, then W.E.ROCK will integrate it immediatly. If there are issues that W.E.ROCK finds, the subject will be thrown back to the panel with the reasons for non-acceptance, and the panel can re-visit it themselves to find a solution, or take it back to the teams to find a solution.
In all cases, W.E.ROCK has the final say and has the right to deny suggestions if they choose. However, in the super high majority of cases, the advice of the panel will be taken and integrated.
Jason, most of these rules just need a visit and some understanding of why W.E.ROCK has proceeded as it has, and seperately, why the teams would like it to be a certain way. Somewhere in there, we'll find a solution that makes sense. There are some things, liabilitywise, that we'd LOVE to mandate, but cannot. in those cases, we just need to find a way to cover the safety the best we can, without putting the santioning at too high of a risk law-suit-wise. This seating topic is one of those situations where we know what we would like to mandate, but cannot...our hands are tied, so let's look for another solution. If we do not find one, then at least we tried and gathered info for possible use in the future.
