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Originally Posted by Michael Hill
Perhaps they're going to include bumper weight in robot weight to prevent teams from maxing out bumper weight for extra weight. We're guilty of this...we used welded steel angle on our bumpers. It's free extra weight down low, so why not? We cut a lot of weight from our drivetrain, so we make it up elsewhere that's free and down low.
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We did that horribly. After our second event, we learned our CoG was way out of wack, so we "stiffened" our bumpers in the front using 1" thick solid stainless steel bumper mounts
It did stiffen our bumper mounts and extreme amount though so it benefited multiple ways