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Re: Are the mandatory bumpers helping or hurting?
This year was our first with bumpers, and it cut both ways.
On the one hand, I don't know how our riveted frame would've held up with some of the hits we delivered. On the other hand, the width added to the frame did us no favors when trying to slip past robots, which proved frustrating at times.
The one thing I like about bumpers is that they're one pesky way of separating the well-designed robots from the not-so-well-designed. We didn't plan our bumper mounts quite as well as we could have, and we paid for it every time we had to put on or take off bumpers. A pain in the butt to be sure, but you'll bet we learned something from the exercise.
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William "Billfred" Leverette - Gamecock/ Jessica Boucher victim/ Marketing & Sales Specialist at AndyMark
2004-2006: FRC 1293 (D5 Robotics) - Student, Mentor, Coach
2007-2009: FRC 1618 (Capital Robotics) - Mentor, Coach
2009-2013: FRC 2815 (Los Pollos Locos) - Mentor, Coach - Palmetto '09, Peachtree '11, Palmetto '11, Palmetto '12
2010: FRC 1398 (Keenan Robo-Raiders) - Mentor - Palmetto '10
2014-2016: FRC 4901 (Garnet Squadron) - Co-Founder and Head Bot Coach - Orlando '14, SCRIW '16
2017-: FRC 5402 (Iron Kings) - Mentor
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