[Ken Streeter]

Originally Posted by Tristan Lall

I have to admit...when I saw the thumbnail of that robot in CD-Media, my first thought was 'illegal bumpers...not again'.

My personal favorite example of illegal bumpers is this one -- an example of a team manufacturing legal bumpers but a GDC member actually modifying the bumpers to make them illegal and then presumably allowing them to compete with them anyway!

PS: The above photo is actually a great example of one of the ethical issues that arise regularly in order to follow the rules precisely -- are rule violations that don't give any competitive advantage to the offending team okay?

The problem is that once any rule violations are permitted, one now enters a slippery slope where a line has to be drawn between violations that are okay and ones that aren't...

PPS: Please realize that I'm not at all upset about teams that competed with bumpers signed by Dean Kamen -- this is just an ironic example of the dilemma that arises with many of the FRC rules...