Perhaps they could officially observe the download of an official RIP image to a contestant's empeg before judging?

I'm afraid that would be too time consuming, and would require that the judge or the competitor to have a portable computer with emplode, a CD player, and a USB port on it and would require a source of A/C power to run the empeg while it was synchronizing. And then how would you convince a judge who has never seen an empeg before that the IASCA tracks you picked out of the hierarchical menu structure were really the ones you had just loaded in? I know I could do some quick sleight-of-remote when the judge's attention was elsewhere ("Oh, wow, judge, look at the rack on that babe...") and pull up my alternative list of highly edited and modified IASCA tracks. I mean, if you want to cheat, it's very difficult to prevent it, and the empeg just makes it more so.

The judges can only spend about 20 minutes with each vehicle as it is, and still these contests frequently run late into the night. If you doubled the amount of time required for judging... but I guess it wouldn't be double for all the vehicles, only the ones with empegs. Logistically it would be difficult, and the judges would not appreciate the extra workload nor would they like doing things differently from what they are doing now.]

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