Scaling via jack up legs instead of "hanging"?

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Originally Posted by FrankJ

Don't over think "normal". You take your robot in whatever operating configurations it might have and set it on level ground. If your bumpers are not in the bumper zone, your robot is not legal. So anything extending to the ground raising the bumpers out of the zone would be illegal. It is up to the team to show all operating configurations to the inspector.

While not specific to this question, if you have an illegal configuration during a match, and it is noticed by the referee, the best result you can hope for is being told to fix it and have your robot reinspected.

I don't think this is an "illegal configuration" though—the bumper rules only talk about the "normal" configuration. For a concrete example, in 2013 some teams had a jack that tilted them up 6 or so inches so they could start climbing the tower. Would you say they were violating the bumper rules as well? The theory is the same.

Anyway, I don't believe this is violating the spirit of the bumper rules either. Bumpers are designed to protect the robot from any rough collisions during the game, but during the last 20 seconds there are already heavy penalties again being contacted in any way by an opposing robot while attempting to scale.