[EricH]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

The Bumper must be against the Frame Perimeter. On that particular corner, there's a bunch of bumper material inside the perimeter.

If you want to make a separate piece of bumper-ish assembly along that inside edge, and count its weight as part of the Robot, then I don't think there are any rules against it, but you can't make it part of the Bumper.

Exactly.

Over the past few years, a number of teams have asked questions about configurations exactly like the one shown. The response has been, almost universally, "No, it's not part of the bumper. No, that's not the frame perimeter."

Could you do it? Yep. Does it get counted as a bumper? Nope. Does it therefore count against size and weight? Yep. At least, that's my interpretation. (And no, I'm not on the GDC or remotely affiliated with them. So this is not an official interpretation.)