[EricH]

Originally Posted by Jared

See question 42 from the 2013 question and answer. It has the exact words from the blue box.

http://www.usfirst.org/sites/default...13_Q_and_A.pdf

If it was good to have angled bumpers with that answer, what rule makes it illegal this year?

As follows:

Q&A is not the rules. Correct? However, Q&A does interpret the rules, and give guidance on following them.

The difference between last year and this year is that this year, the ruling is in the rules, not the Q&A. Admittedly, it is in a blue box, AKA "intent and clarification", but it is still in the Manual.

Note too that the word "overtly" is used. Slight variations from level with the ground would probably be OK, you made the effort, but going from 10" (at the top) down to 7" (at the top) over the span of an 8" bumper would raise flags.