[Jon Stratis]

Cutting your pool noodles at a slope, other than in the corners (which is a special case as defined by R24) would seem to me to violate the intended bumper cross section defined in R21 and shown in figure 4-7. In multiple questions every year (except last year, obviously), the Q&A has referred pretty strictly to the bumper cross section, which would make me strongly suspect anything not meeting that cross section to be a problem.

Remember, the bumpers are there to protect your robot, not make it perform better at the given tasks for the game.