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Originally Posted by thehurd03
They don't have to, The rules say you have to cover 75% (I think) of the perimeter of your robot.
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I would worry about bumper rule I:
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BUMPERS must protect all exterior corners of the BUMPER PERIMETER
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in combination with bumper rule A:
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BUMPERS must be built in segments, with a minimum length of six inches, and a maximum
length that does not exceed the maximum horizontal dimension of the ROBOT
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So if you need to have a bumper on the front (that's the if), it must be 6 inches long and fastened to the hard robot frame, which in the pictured robot's configuration would put it inside the bumper perimeter and thus illegal according to bumper rule L:
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The BUMPERS must be fixed to the BUMPER PERIMETER
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