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Re: <R31> Regarding Split numbered bumpers

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Originally Posted by jvriezen View Post
If you have a gap of 16 inches between the split numbers, and your robot is partially obscured by a field element or other robot so that I can't see the other two digits (but can see the gap), then you have ambiguity.
How is that more ambiguous then a robot with contiguous bumper numbers when 2 numbers are obscured by field element?

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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz View Post
The blue box reference is correct, numbers can be split with the clear intent that numbers be "unambiguous so that Judges, Referees, Announcers, and other Teams can easily identify competing ROBOTS." This may be difficult for teams with numbers 22, 2222, 11, 1111, etc. I tell teams when asked, "you want to play on Saturday, right? Then you have to be sure you can be identified from the stands."
I can see it being an issue for a team 1111 in which the numbers are all split, however, on a normal robot with contiguous numbers on 3 sides and split numbers on the front, that doesn't seem like an issue.