Are 8 play regional reasonable?

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Originally Posted by Mr V

Once I explained to him that I agreed that their bumpers fully protected their robot, BUT that the 8" bumper width was created in part to make teams decide on the trade offs of their choice of robot size.

This was in part a design challenge to make you think about picking up boulders and adjusting your frame opening accordingly. However, this is not the first year that 8" segments were the rule.