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Originally Posted by EricH
I prefer the '06-'07 bumper rules, myself. They were quite simple: You could have "standard" bumpers, or not. If you had them, they had their own weight limit. If you didn't, that was your choice. And you could cover as much or as little of the robot as you liked. '08 and '09 weren't bad, either--there was a certain percentage of the perimeter that had to be covered (though '09 forced a trailer hitch to fit in the uncovered percentage... ouch).
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I like this. Relaxed bumper rules might help encourage more creative designs like it did this year, but it might hurt younger teams who didn't build bumpers because it was a drain on their resources who really need some.
Perhaps teams should be required to have a full set of bumpers possible to use, but are not required to use them on the field.