What color bumpers do you prefer?
 

So I've found teams with colors like red or blue often prefer to have bumpers with the colors that correlate with their team's. But what I've also discovered is certain teams like the contrast, and certain teams with no colors at all (Black/White) have varying preferences.

Our team prefers red. Usually if we take the robot to a demonstration we only take the red bumpers.

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Starting in 2010, teams were required to build two sets of bumpers to correspond to their alliance. Previously, they could be designed/colored however teams wanted, as long as it followed the rules.

From an aesthetic standpoint, I prefer individual bumpers. However alliance color coded bumpers makes it FAR easier to at least figure out what side a robot is on, even if you can't read their number.

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Or a reversable set of bumpers :rolleyes:.

Personally, I prefer a set of blue bumpers. The red ones always seem cursed for us.... (not finished on time, break more, etc.)

Though my favorite bumpers are 118's. ;)

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I will start by agreeing with Kim on this. In terms of aesthetics I prefer the days when bumpers could be the color we wanted them to be. With that said I also agree with her that having bumper colors signify alliance is a welcome change that came out of 2010.

For our team, we love blue all the way. With blue being our main color, it just makes sense. Also with lots of blue and grey being incorporated into our robot in other areas, the blue goes along nicer. The red tends to clash in an unappealing way.

EDIT: To be clear this is purely based on looks. When it comes to which bumpers in terms of alliance I like being on, for eliminations at least, red all the way. :p

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In qualifications, we like matching blue bumpers. In eliminations, we prefer red bumpers.

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Interesting. Is there like a story behind this or superstition?

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Since our team colors are black n red I'd prefer seeing the robot in red.

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Blue is their team color, but red denotes a higher seed in eliminations and therefore you are favored to win the round.

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The #1 seeded alliance will always be the red alliance in the eliminations.

I one l like to mix and match (when not competing) especially if our bumpers are in 4 or more sections.

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3481 Bronc Botz prefers BLUE... _especially_ representative of last season... lol

--Michael Blake

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We usually prefer red bumpers at competition, though we use black and green show bumpers when we go to demos and other community events. Or even just the competition practice day, when color doesn't necessarily indicate the correct alliance.

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Weirdly enough the preferred bumper color depends on the robot? Every season, whether or not we acknowledge it, the robot becomes associated with a particular bumper color. Maybe it just suits them?

For instance, OTTO was red,

and Vlad was blue.

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As much as color standardization was needed, I do miss the old bumpers:

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All of the good texas teams - 118, 148, 624, and 1477 always have really cool show bumpers. There might be some others in texas also.


Here's an example

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/at...5&d=1384647350

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Blue.

We were blue before bumper color meant anything. Note how we're on the red alliance here:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/37193

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Blue, because underdogs.

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We prefer red, because we're on fire. Simple, really.

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Being our team's color, right now, definitely blue.

Of course, not exactly opposed to being red in elimination matches though...

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Blue. Our team is always the underdog.

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Red. It goes well with team colors.

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Blue, even though red normally means a higher seed in eliminations blue bumpers have always seemed, in my mind at least, to match with our robots better. Not to mention that our school and team colors are blue and white

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Red. We typically make the bumpers blue and our bumper cover red, so the robot has 14 more ounces of low-seated weight (at least last year it did, anyway).

Plus (in most cases), we would rather be in the higher seeded position.

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Our team colors are orange and white, so red kind of clashes. We prefer blue for that reason

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Our team colors are red and gold, so red is usually the favored color. However both red and blue look nice on the silvery color of aluminum that our robots are, so we don't mind either way.

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Being Code Red Robotics, (2771, NOT 639 :P) we prefer red bumpers. All the time.

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It's really quite amazing what people will find time to talk about in the month before kickoff. Anyway, we usually go with blue since it's our secondary color. That set seems to stay in better shape as well, since our bumpers always end up looking a bit tired by the end of the season.

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The poll is flawed. What about the teams that make "demo" bumpers in some other color? I really like the Robonauts' gold-on-white ones. The TechnoKats used black vinyl bumpers on one a recent practice 'bot. I imagine someone on 1024 has considered making bright yellow ones at some point.

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You can't forget 4039's show bumpers.

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Or 25's! :D

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I prefer aluminum-colored bumpers, made of aluminum. :cool:

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Anyone have a shot of Wildstang's vanity bumpers? I think those are tie-dye :D

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I'm going to go with blue. It goes better with our team colors of green, black and white. It's not much of an issue, though. Our bumpers are reversible and we can switch colors in about 15 seconds.

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With a few dents, dings, and scratches in random places for character, I presume?

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Ah, the good old days before bumpers were required things.

Today's robots just don't come home with battle scars like they used to.

I clearly remember (and Travis might too, since he was there to watch it happen) 1075's 2004 robot at the Wonderland Invitational offseason getting rammed head-on in Autonomous, bending the frame by about 2" to rub on the tire hard enough we couldn't move. 5 minutes with a sawzall to remove the offending chunk of frame before the next match and we were back in business, going on to later win that event, together with 1241 and 1114 (predating 1114's immense strength -- 1114 was the 16th pick!).

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...crudely painted with a cheap can of bright paint from the Home Depot so you can trade it with your on-field opponents.

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We go with red, though now I am inclined to telling our team to make a set of "bragger" bumpers with some good artwork like palm-trees, red and black! Maybe we could have individually addressable LEDs to allow cool lighting effects! I'd be gazing at it, chanting "Shiny..." like a zombie that found it's brain!

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Blue; I like to be the underdog.

Alliance 6 FTW: the only alliance that wears blue all three rounds.

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I think it would make more sense that i would prefer the blue bumpers, but i think the Red bumpers look awesome in contrast with our blue robot.