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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

The bumper zone rules have not changed since January 7th (with the exception of a Q&A clarification that stated a robot on the ramp that has contact, iniated by either party, outside of the bumper zone does not suffer a penalty for either robot, due to the unlevel surfacing), they just were not enforced very well at msot (if any) regional competitions. Go read the rules again, and ask a head ref tomorrow if you still have questions.

The rule might not have changed (actually it was changed on Update 12) but interpretations of the word "incidental" may well have, and I would like to know what incidental means. I've read the rules enough to know that "Rule <R35> in Section 5.3.4 establishes ROBOT BUMPER ZONEs" is not the case (Robot bumper zone is defined in section 4).