Bumpers here to stay?

[Karthik]

Originally Posted by BBnum3

My team read and knew that rule in the manual, but we decided to just cut away that part of the bumper anyway.

So you knew it was a rule, but you decided to violate it anyways? This is what we call "cheating".

Originally Posted by BBnum3

I'm not trying to brag about getting around a rule, but I am happy that we did, as the rule, like I said before, didn't really affect gameplay at all.

This is what we call "someone being happy about cheating".

I'm sorry to be harsh, but this is ridiculous. FIRST has a lot of rules that people don't like. Just because we don't like them, we still have to obey them. If not, we're punishing teams for taking the time to stay within compliance. Examples this year include the fix-it windows. Many teams disagreed with the logistics of these, and could have violated them easily. Despite their disagreement with the rule, they obeyed them.

Let's face it, most of the rules in our competition can be broken very easily. We rely on the gracious professionalism of our participants, to ensure these rules are adhered to. When a team decides to break a rule that is hard to enforce the only group that suffers are the honest teams who upheld the rules. Do you really want to be a part of that?