Rookie Team Passing Inspection (video)

[sandiegodan]

Originally Posted by Squillo

Are teams getting dinged for bumpers (for example, let's assume full coverage bumpers, no 'cutout' or "c-shaped" frame) that meet the other rules (no gap more than 1/4" deep) but are not connected at the very end? Say, securely connected to the frame 3" in from the end of the plywood?

There was a lot of discussion on here a while back about the "connected at the end" part of the rule. Is that tripping up a lot of teams?

I inspected in San Diego and I didn't see any of that particular issue. It was mostly about the 8" minimum supported bumper from the vertex when the bot had a ball opening on the narrow end of the frame.

[Jaxom]

Originally Posted by sandiegodan

I inspected in San Diego and I didn't see any of that particular issue. It was mostly about the 8" minimum supported bumper from the vertex when the bot had a ball opening on the narrow end of the frame.

The bumper issues I remember were almost all this 8" problem, although we also had a few with numbers that didn't meet the rules.

I did have one robot I inspected that had to add an attachment when they went from a 6" to a full 8" section at the side of their opening. There was only one attachment on the original segment & it was closer to the corner than it was to the opening; adding the extra 2" would have left a pretty wobbly bumper without a 2nd attachment.