[BJC]

I think that although there was a lot of complaints about the bumper colors and how they take away from robots "good looks" people have to remember that alot of that was because of the amount of tunnel-bots this year. In future years the robots will be much taller and as a result the bumpers will have less of an overall effect on a robots look.

However, I do miss custom bumpers, perhaps if only 75% of the bumpers had to be red/blue and the rest could be up to the team provided it is not the opposite color the alliance is (blue and red in the same bumpers). I think that inspectors would also have to be a little more picky when looking at bumpers, making sure the reds and blues were the specified red and blue (I have seen teams with pink and dark navy bumpers). I think this could greatly improve how the robots look while clearly showing what team everyone is on at any given moment.