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Originally Posted by pfreivald
I think you're making well more of this than there is to make.
The bumper rules specify how bumpers are to be constructed. The question was whether or not those rules could be deviated from; the answer was "no". It doesn't apply to general materials usage, or non-bumpers, or anything else--just bumper construction.
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I respectfully disagree. FIRST wants all teams to conform to the rules, even the rules that aren't readily inspect-able. I believe that most teams want to comply with all the rules. To do that, teams have to be able to understand what those rules are. When they answer a question without giving a basis for the answer, and that basis is not obvious, they are leaving it up to teams to interpret what they mean. If some teams interpret things differently than other teams, or differently than inspectors, it can lead to trouble.