30 lbs allowance

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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz

Ah, but they are. They are simply weighed separately for convenience. Teams who held out their bumpers last year were able to bring them in because of the 65 pound withholding allowance of last year only. This was due to the severe weather most of the country encountered that limited build time. This year we returned to the 30 pounds and that caught many teams who did not ship their bumpers last year.

Al,

The thing is 2175 did ship their bumpers last year, in their crate. This year the two Minneapolis regionals changed over to Bag-and-Tag. As Aren said, it is in the rules and the team is not blaming anyone but themselves over it (this is what happens when I move across the country, the robot gets better and the rules knowledge gets worse ).

What I would like to see is FIRST allowing and encouraging bumpers to be bagged in a second, separate bag. It eliminates the difficulty of bagging them with the robot, but maintains the "done at ship date" aspect.