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Originally Posted by CraigHickman

...If FIRST doesn't want us to lawyer their rules, then why do they make them so damned hard to understand? I mean honestly, if you don't want us snaking for loopholes, make the rules clear! This bumper fiasco is meant to keep our robots safe, but instead end up hindering so many teams. If FIRST wishes that competition be boiled down to a bunch of driving boxes, they'll get what they've had last year: A game that was boring to watch.

I think they thought their rules were clear... but a group of 10000+ excited high school students can find holes in pretty much anything.