A question about 8in Bumpers...

[EricH]

Originally Posted by waialua359

FIRST needs to make it a point to reiterate the bumper rules in every update next season.
I would hate to see this come Thursday at a regional event from any robot.
No matter how many times its stated, there are always teams that miss this and threads that come up.

Someone was showing me a video of the Frame Perimeter and how to determine that. That video, or one like it, needs to be played at Kickoff, before the Field Tour videos, and be linked in the Manual.

So many teams at the local scrimmage needed some bumper work... mostly, it was support. A few needed help on the Frame Perimeter (like the team who had one that was really complicated to explain just what was wrong with it--as I recall, it was that their treads were in the Bumper Zone, and defining their Frame Perimeter, while their Bumpers were secured up higher, but not quite fully backed. I suggested that they fully back their bumpers--corner-type bumpers here--and that would prevent their treads from illegally defining their Frame Perimeter. That was a fun explanation...)