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Re: Are two sets of bumpers necessary?

I came in too late for the rotating light, but the bicycle flags were terrible. They'd hop out of the flag holder at the slightest provocation, and were easily masked by field elements and other robots. The flag holder, which was a dead simple 12" section of 1/2" PVC capped at one end, was also an inspection circus as many teams would forget to attach one to the robot. (Which is why I assumed the bumper rule simplification wasn't going to make inspection much easier. It's hard to get simpler than the flag holder, and folks were getting that wrong.)

As big a nuisance as the bumpers may be, they're still the best system I've seen for making alliance identification blatantly obvious to even the most casual observer and simultaneously making it so you don't have to search the whole robot for the team number. The reversible ones are a pain to make due to a lot of sewing on heavy fabric, but significantly reduce suffering at the competition.
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