pic: Boilermaker Final Lift

[Goldeye]

Originally Posted by d.courtney

The rules are too opaque. The fault the rules now possess is if your robot is tipped you are violating rules, are too heavy and should be disqualified because the bumper goes 28 inches high (and then it's both you and the tipper disqualified). Also if the point of reference is the ground as in this case, what allows the bumper of the robot that climbs a ramp to be higher then 8 inches (are we now going to make it illegal to climb ramps when sporting a bumper?).
Also why is this bumper illegal in FIRST's mind? It serves its purpose and just happens to lift at the end.

According to one of the Q&As (paraphrased):
The bumper zone is defined as the space between two planes parallel to the base of the starting configuration of the robot, 2.5 and 8 (or whatever the heights are) inches off of that base.
Thus, when a robot climbs up a ramp, the bumper zone moves climbs up with it. (Search the Q&A for GDC wording if you'd like. Reporting back on how close I was would be cool ;-))