Making Bumper Weight?

[lancerbotics]

If we have read the rules correctly, as long as you are using the standard bumpers as they are diagrammed in the rules, they do not count against your weight or dimensions. Is this correct or are we totally off base?

[EricH]

Originally Posted by lancerbotics

If we have read the rules correctly, as long as you are using the standard bumpers as they are diagrammed in the rules, they do not count against your weight or dimensions. Is this correct or are we totally off base?

Correct...HOWEVER, they have their own weight restriction (15 lbs) and size (in the Bumper Zone, they can't extend more than a few inches from the robot).

[aapl.jlo]

I'd side with these guys, those are some heavy bumpers. Still, I would think that the more weight you could get at the bottom the better since we're going to be using robots that reach up high for the overdrive balls. Still I haven't read enough to know how heavy you can make them.