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Hello, I am the president of Team 4212 the Techno Ferrets and we competed at the Central Illinois Regional in Week 3. We were picked to be a part of the 4th seeded alliance and our strategy was to be a defender bot to limit other teams' scoring. While we were playing defense during our second semifinal match one of the teams on the opposing alliance drove on our bot, spun the tires, and then backed off. This caused one side of our reversible bumpers (the ones that use Velcro to hold it up) to fall down and show the red side. The remaining 3 sides of our bumpers were all blue. We continued playing defense and then on our way to cross a defense, score a low goal, and get on the batter, we were e-stopped because we were not in compliance with the bumper rules.

Here is the rule we were said to have violated:

G19-1 ROBOTS must be in compliance with Section 4 (4.7 BUMPER Rules) throughout the MATCH.
Violation: FOUL. DISABLED if structurally non-compliant or the Team number or ALLIANCE color is ambiguous.

I would just like to know what everyone else take is on this rule. We probably could have won that match if we were not e-stopped which would have forced a 3rd match.