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We just want to be sure about the bumpers:

Can we have one bumper frame and cover it with a cloth (red/blue) and switch the cloth or do we need to have two completely different bumper frames ready?

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Re: Bumpers

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We just want to be sure about the bumpers:

Can we have one bumper frame and cover it with a cloth (red/blue) and switch the cloth or do we need to have two completely different bumper frames ready?

Thank you
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What many teams do is they'll have one cover as the base color, and the other color goes over that when they're on the other alliance. Others will build two separate bumpers that can be swapped easily.
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Re: Bumpers

It would appear that you must make 2 sets of bumpers. However, there are no rules which state an option, or lack thereof, as there has been in years past.
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Re: Bumpers

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It would appear that you must make 2 sets of bumpers. However, there are no rules which state an option, or lack thereof, as there has been in years past.
What rules are you taking that answer from? If there are no rules for or against an option, as you say, then the bumper cover option should be just fine.
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Re: Bumpers

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It would appear that you must make 2 sets of bumpers.
Nope, that's not it, mate.

Game - The Robot » Bumper Rules » R34
Q. Regarding bumper rules (R28-R35), we would like to make the fabric instead of the bumpers interchangable while maintaining compliance with all of these rules. We see no rules requiring separate red and blue bumpers. Have we missed a rule that would prevent this design?
A. There are no Rules regarding how a team chooses to meet the blue and red bumper requirement of Rule [R34].

Game - The Robot » Bumper Rules » R32
Q. Can one of the bumper covers be made with elastic so that the team can slip the alliance color over the bumper, for quick alliance color change?
A. There are no rules that prohibit this method for accommodating Rule [R32].

Game - The Robot » Bumper Rules » R29
Q. To preserve material and time, it is possible to cover the bumper with a white clothe and make red and blue rectangle (reversible) whit our number. In this way, only the corners of the robot gone be white. Perhaps, if it not possible, can we make blue and red corners to dissimulate de white corner.
A. There are no Rules prohibiting a changeable color cover; however, the entire Bumper (including corners) must be either red or blue during the Match as per [R28-D].
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