Bumpers

[TedG]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

Well, the GDC has ruled:


https://frc-qa.usfirst.org/Question/...alliance-color

This answer, for example, makes many reversible bumpers that have been OK the past few years illegal, and yet it's really the only answer you can expect from the GDC. As an LRI, I now find it difficult to allow a team to slide by, when I would have otherwise passed the pictures shown in this thread - having a straight GDC interpretation like this forces me to be more strict at the event as well.

So you're saying "don't ask, don't tell"?
Similar to the bumper number question asked in another thread....

Question was asked if a white number with a purple outline was acceptable and the answer was "no".

When in fact I have seen numbers out there either white numbers outlined with something else or some color outlined with white, some very hard to read from the stands.

Unfortunately if you don't know, you need to ask so you don't get in trouble, and that triggers an official "anwer" that needs to be followed by inspectors/refs.

I would imagine the more FIRST grows with rookie teams, these types of questions will be asked.

I'm not sure what the correct action would be in these cases(?)

I think some of the rules need to be re-worded, in this case, to accommadate this exact issue, like "98% of the bumber frabric needs to be the intended color and be obvious to a common observer".

~shrug~