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Originally Posted by Jack Jones

If the GDC has looked very hard at the bumper design, then how is it they overlooked the most critical element - the plywood? There's a whole lot of difference between the 13 ply Baltic Birch plywood we use and the 5 ply soft-wood junk they sell at Home Depot. The ruling spends just one word, "plywood", on the most important part, but goes into great detail and updates about trivial air gaps. It just doesn't make sense!

Al - I'll bet you a dollar to a doughnut (no Krispy Kreme please) that a 35" slab of our plywood will take that hit.

In 2007 we had a bumper of high quality plywood unsupported over about 30 inches. It snapped like a twig our first match. We replaced the wood and it happened again so we played the rest of the regional with a broken bumper. At our next regional we replaced it with cheep Lowe's plywood and it lasted almost the entire regional before it broke (it had more spring.)