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Re: Non-sagging Bumpers Q&A Response

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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz View Post
The pool noodles are not exactly 2.5" But the small amount that you compress while making tight fabric is not significant. We learned how to make them tight from some of our team moms, my wife among them. Believe me, if you want them to look nice get some parents involved.
Al, thank you for the explanation. So your interruption is that the rule regarding using 2.5" Pool noodles, dictates the state that they are in when on the robot? That seems very odd to me. I am really trying to find a way to justify teams not compressing bumpers in the rules and that rule has always read to me that the pool noodles should be manufactured at 2.5". Otherwise a team could use larger pool noodles and compress them down to 2.5" diameter and that doesn't seem legal either. What I'm trying to get at is the rule set seems incomplete. If the GDC's intent is for bumper pool noodles not to be compressed their should be a rule that states that. Under the current rule set I would have a hard time justifying forcing a team with compressed bumpers to remake their bumpers.
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