Bumper Question

[NShep98]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

Cutting your pool noodles at a slope, other than in the corners (which is a special case as defined by R24) would seem to me to violate the intended bumper cross section defined in R21 and shown in figure 4-7. In multiple questions every year (except last year, obviously), the Q&A has referred pretty strictly to the bumper cross section, which would make me strongly suspect anything not meeting that cross section to be a problem.

Remember, the bumpers are there to protect your robot, not make it perform better at the given tasks for the game.

I don't believe the intention is to cut the pool noodles in any way, but rather to make it so the bumper covers the required 8 inches, then any section of bumper after that is sloped so that it is now inside the frame perimeter, in which case that portion of bumper is in fact not considered bumper at all officially, seeing as it is inside the frame perimeter.

However, since 8 inches of bumper from each corner are present, this would be a legal solution, as far as I can tell.