pic: FRC488 - 2010 Robot - "X"

[Madison]

Originally Posted by ajlapp

Did you compete with those bumpers? I was under the impression that only numbers were allowed?

We've been questioned twice here in Michigan because our bumpers have numbers with two separate colors.

These last two season of FIRST have had an incredibly large focus on bumpers.

Nice looking bot otherwise.

They let us compete with them, but we did get a talking to about it. We'll have new bumpers in Atlanta, if we go, and hope to do as well without the competitive advantage that having our team name on the bumpers gives.

[waialua359]

Congrats on a great seattle regional!
Funny how both of us came up with the same name for our robot, as we didnt do FRC in 2004 but started a year before you folks.

[dtengineering]

Originally Posted by Madison

... and hope to do as well without the competitive advantage that having our team name on the bumpers gives.

I sometimes like to invoke what I call the "Rebagliatti rule"... if it's not performance enhancing you get to keep the medal.

I was surprised that the tech inspectors didn't require that "XBot" be covered with a piece of fabric... although considering that they allowed a few teams to compete with black numbers on blue bumpers, I'd say they extended similar courtesies on bumper numbering to other teams, so it was only fair to do the same here... but it made no difference to the outcome... a well deserved victory.

Good luck in Atlanta.

Jason