Your tall opaque robot is now illegal

[Tom Line]

Originally Posted by waialua359

Jon,
we were told by the refs at the Lake Superior event during the semifinals to secure our bumper a little higher on one of the corners of the robot because they said it was too low (sagging). We were told to fix it or sit out. I didnt have a tape measure on me, but we used a wood screw drilled through our frame to secure it temporarily until our final matches were over. Yet, we passed inspection.......twice.

HA!

We've been bitten by the over-zealous bumper ref as well. A couple years (2011) ago after our team put the robot on the field, a ref thought our bumpers were too low. We grabbed a tape measure to prove we were good, but they pulled out a wooden template. They slid the template under the bumper and it went with no problem, but because it touched a fold in the fabric we were forced to raise our bumpers 1/4". We had passed inspection 5 times. 4 district inspections and 1 at the start of states.