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Unread 10-02-2016, 11:51
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Re: 3019's preview of our "black knight"

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Originally Posted by Fauge7 View Post
Wow...geez im just the media guy this year (kidding but not...) I actually just looked over the rules and will have to inform my team of this unfortunate mistake we made. In the beginning of the season they did keep saying that if a side was shorter then 8 inches it just has to be covered...I looked at the q and a and the updated manual again...Definitely not one of the rules that should have been vague...
We've accumulated 6 pages of bumper rules in the manual. Trust me; yours isn't the only team to have made a mistake with bumpers. It's happened before, it's happening right now, it'll happen in the future. I dream of a day that a first week event can get through inspection day without any bumper violations, but I kind of doubt that's going to happen anytime soon.

I guess we can't blame FIRST for the crazy bumper rules though. At least half are there to eliminate loop holes and sneaky optimizations teams have come up with over the years.