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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz
Mike,
By far and away, more veteran teams had issues with the 8" rule than rookies (OK maybe 50/50). It has been very distressing that teams did not interpret the rules correctly, even after the Team Update #5 that added to the bumper drawings came out in Week 3 of build. There is a big arrow pointing to a bumper segment that is "<8 inches" as being "not OK".

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I agree that the 8" minimum bumper width was a problem for Veteran teams not just Rookies. Granted there are far fewer Rookies but I only had one Rookie that showed up at the events I was at that had significant bumper problems and there were a number of Veterans with similar or bigger problems.