[Jon Stratis]

I will say one thing... As an inspector, this rule is very straight forward and easy to verify. Most people seem to want some sort of "contrasting color" rule instead of the black/white... But when inspecting at an event contrasting colors can be somewhat subjective, and may lead to disagreements between teams an inspectors.

Frankly, given the large number of crappy looking bumper numbers I've seen over the years, I'm a little surprised people are so upset about how "bad" this will look on their robot. For teams that forget it, this is something that is easily and quickly (if ugly) remedied with some paper, a sharpie, and some tape... Not so go teams that had bumper issues and had to scramble to find a way to get their numbers on newly made bumpers, or have to wait hours for the paint to dry..