Best Fender shooters

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Originally Posted by roystur44

Just need to make sure your frame is up to the punishment and you contact in the bumper zone or else a G27 will get you.

We had a problem with robots wheelie the front of the their bot and riding up our bumpers thus contacting our inside frame perimeter real hard. The refs didn't call it but it was a obvious foul. I hope the refs watch for G27 in Champs.

That's an unfortunate consequence of this year's bumper rules. You can't reasonably except two sets of bumpers, one at max height and one at min height, to not slide past each other when heavy contact occurs. Even when their isn't a wheelie, the 2" of contact between bumpers isn't going to prevent the higher bumpers from getting on top.

If you're worried about your frame, you can just raise your bumpers to be in the middle of the bumper zone. But I know the purpose of low bumpers is to give you an advantage while pushing, because your wheels don't come off the ground as much. So when you're in a pushing match with a robot with higher bumpers, you are fully expecting their robot's wheels to come off the ground a bit, giving you an advantage. But with that measly 2" of bumper contact in the first place, you're also deliberately deciding to risk contact within the frame perimeter.