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Originally Posted by RMS11
I was just curious, have other regionals been calling teams on this? I just wanted to let other teams who built their bumpers like us to be prepared for this possible ruling. How does everyone else interpret this rule? We plan to remake our bumpers for North Carolina...
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We were called on this at the Finger Lakes Regional as well, during the second inspection before elimination rounds. Why it was missed during the initial inspection, we will never know. I know a second team was also advised to fix their bumpers as well. After understanding the rules, we fixed the two offending bumpers, pulled them apart, cut off 3/4 inch of wood off of each end and re-wrapped them.
A bit of a pain, yes. But we were the ones who mis-read the rules, so we have no real reason to complain. And since our bumper design is one of the simplest possible, they still look just as good as before.
To me, it does no good to look at other teams bumpers to say that we weren't treated fairly. Our team's expectation is that we do our best to be professional and focus on making our robot the best it can be regardless of the status of the team's around us.