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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 are also very guilty of this. In 2014 our robot was a had a little of a high center of gravity and we fixed it by increasing bumper weight. It would make a lot of sense for them to put bumpers in the weight limit to account for this, especially of they are expecting to see more high CoG robots this year.