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Originally Posted by Navid Shafa
That's exactly the problem. It varies a lot from event to event. I have to agree with David. I also saw plenty of robots drive without bumpers this season. I understand wanting to let a team play that is barely out of compliance, but as soon as they cause an on-field infraction like this, there is little room for judgement. If the bumper is laying on the floor, impeding traffic, or getting pulled up into another robot's drive train, then it would be crazy not to disable them.
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The issue is that it's at the Referee's discretion as to when to disable a robot, but apart from running over and smacking the E-Stop the ref cannot disable a robot by himself he has to have the scorekeeper disable it.
Not to mention, the head ref is watching the whole field and may be concentrating on other things leaving a robot to run without bumpers for a while.
I did disable a couple of robots for bumper violations this year at the direction of the head ref.
I do know that it's been suggested that a disable button be added to the head ref panel so the ref can disable a robot directly.