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Originally Posted by Steve Ketron
Q. Can the bumpers be covered at any point by a dynamic appendage on the robot?
A. There are no rules prohibiting this.
This makes absolutely no sense to me. If you can not have fragmented or obsured numbers because you want judges/refs to be able to see your number at all times/angles, then how can you allow a robot to block the numbers and the refs/judges can't see anything. With some of these dynamic appendages that teams have a fragmented number makes it much easier to read than a squished number. What is the point of saying the numbers must be clearly seen from 100 ft away if you allow it to be covered up and hard to see from 15ft away?
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Maybe someone should make a robot that purposely follows the bumper rules exactly, yet all 4 sides get completely obscured and no one can ever see the numbers.
I'm kidding, of course.
But seriously, why does
FIRST need to this? It is so superfluous!
Tangent question (and this is just a thought, my team did not do this): Would one be allowed to securely/rigidly mount a piece of polycarbonate, or some mounted "plate" to the bumper, that actually extended past the 8 inches of bumper into the "U" area such that i could much more easily write out a number?
Just my thoughts, complaints, jokes, concerns, or something......
-Duke