pic: 48 lifts 222 and 1038 in Pitt

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Nichols

Our Adult Team Leader told us he would like to see us run red and blue bumpers before he left for a field trip to Germany the last week of the biuld season. When he came back we had made them. He was jokingwith us, but we went ahead and made them.

I don't want to go off topic, but does anyone think red and blue bumpers could be a replacement for the useless and hard to see flags/flag holders?

All I know is that it was VERY easy to tell which alliance 1038 was on during the qualifying. Bumpers are ALWAYS going to be visible on the robot.

Instead of requiring teams to have 2 full sets of blue and red bumpers, why not have some kind of red/blue velcro Cordura Plus patch that would be applied to all four sides of the bumper area? If FIRST didn't want to require bumpers for all teams, then they could at least require each team to set aside space in their bumper zones to display the alliance color. All it would require of teams is a little Velcro. These are lighter than the flag holders and wouldn't get in the way.