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Re: Pool Noodles with holes?
a) The rule says 2.5" pool noodles. The diagrams and the sample in the KoP are the only reference to holes, and the diagrams, as has been repeatedly stressed, are not rules and cannot be used to infer rules. Nothing supersedes the text of the rule book... so if isn't in there, then it isn't a rule. If your pool noodle is 2.5" diameter, then you are good to go.

b) I do a fairly detailed tech inspection, including feeling bumpers to make sure they "feel right", but I've never asked a team to open their bumpers up so that I could check out what was inside. A rule prohibiting a particular style of pool noodle (solid or hollow) would not only be pointless, but mostly unenforcable

But I'd stick with A. FIRST is generally pretty good about the fact that if it isn't in the rules, then it isn't a rule! (They are, I might add, excellent about the fact that if it IS in the book then it IS a rule.)

Jason