Non-level bumpers

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Originally Posted by EricH

There is no explicit requirement that BUMPERS be perfectly parallel to the floor, however the requirement that BUMPERS be constructed per Figure 4?8, the vertical cross-section, does implicitly mean that a BUMPER should not overtly deviate from this orientation.

Emphasis mine. The blue box specifically states that the bumpers are IMPLICITLY required to be as close as possible to horizontal. Not explicitly required to be one way is not the same as specifically allowed to be another way. You're not explicitly required to use any particular fabric on your bumper, but a particular fabric is specifically allowed by implication.

Then, the bumpers of 1114, 67, and 236 were illegal in 2013.

What I'm trying to get at is, if you're committing to a design off an assumption of a sentence in a manual based off a past Q&A answer, you should probably ask it on Q&A for some form of further clarification

I assumed that the interpretation given by the robot inspectors at the CT regional, GTR east, GTR west, Waterloo, Galileo, and the michigan district was correct and that robots that competed in the final match of their division at CMP (in a configuration that they had throughout the whole season) were not illegal. If we say that this interpretation could have been wrong, then it opens a huge door to changes