Color Coded Bumpers as Flag Replacements?

[Kims Robot]

Originally Posted by 1359th Scalawag

I dont know how much of my team I speak for, but I dont specifically want bumpers on our robots. I'd say it's mostly an imagery thing, I wouldn't want the entire side of our robot to be blue or red. In my opinion, ours looks cooler without bumpers and I wouldn't like to be forced to use them.

If you read all of Travis's idea, he suggests an idea for teams that dont want to use bumpers as well. You can just creat a side panel that has room to velcro the fabric. Its really not that hard.

We use our bumpers for imagery as well(red camo fabric that matches our pants & pit), but I personally would be happy to give up half a bumper on each side to an alliance color if it got rid of the flags. I think this is a great idea!

Going back a ways, I wonder what ever happened to the red & blue covered siren lights... They could be difficult to mount, but they were very visible from everywhere... and if you planned it right, they were easy to see.