Clarification on New Bumper Rules and Reusing Them

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Originally Posted by Apachebot

My team (5241) is a sophomore team, and so we have come to face the reuse or not to reuse dilemma. I believe my team's robot should have bumpers, as we had several issues last year with the battery being disconnected by a hard bump (our old chassis was dented).
When I was searching these forums for information on reusing parts, there was one particular thread (link) which had several users comment on how the part could be reused because the bumper could possibly be considered not part of the robot. Now that the bumpers are optional and considered to be part of the robot's perimeter, would that mean that the bumpers could definitely NOT be reused?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

last year was a very hard game on chassis i dont see any issues this year for why bumpers are needed we finally get the freedom to show some metal hahaa