[blayde5]

To address people's concerns about bumper legality during matches,

During eliminations, we had at least the lead robot inspector behind the field with the volunteers ready to re-inspect any robots as well as make sure they were compliant during the match.

Some times, the head ref would catch something that we couldn't necessarily catch during inspection (for example, one robot was tearing up the field due to its pick-up mechanism) and ask us inspectors to rectify it or at least investigate it before the team took their robot off the field.

I myself was behind the field with the rest of the volunteers quickly making sure there wasn't any obvious flaws that teams missed as an inspector (bumper fabric dragging on the ground, new mechanisms that hadn't been inspected, etc.) A lot of teams had made changes during eliminations to add a new mechanism and those had to be re-inspected quickly before their next elimination match.

Moral of the story: feel free to make changes to your robot, just make sure that they're compliant and then please find an inspector well before your next match starts so we can re-inspect it