legality of bolt and screw heads breaking plane of chassis meeting bumpers

[Don Wright]

Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur

Stupid ruling? Hasty ruling? Not the correct or rational ruling?

Doesn't make much sense to me. Seems your time would be better spend figuring out how to comply with the requirements and not bashing them.

JM(NS)HO

And I think you missed my point completely.

Our robot is bagged and meets the requirement. If I was only worried about our robot, then I wouldn't be spending my time "bashing it".

But, I have a broader view of the problem outside of just my team and I'm thinking of the 75% of the robots that show up at the competition and have to really work hard to make their robot legal due to a stupid ruling instead on focusing on better things...if they can even make their robot legal.

Now, if the ruling was just changed to allow fasteners (welds, strings, etc.) outside the bumper zone...we can stop bashing...and I can stop worrying about all the teams that have no idea that this problem will be there when they go to inspection on Thursday/Friday...