I was totally wrong about this, this is new practice. Sorry for any confusion
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this still doesnât seem to clear up wether separate PADDING segments mitered at an angle was okay
Draw out your questioned alignment of Padding and Fabric.
Post it here.
Your description given currently exactly matches one of the âOKâ pictures in the Manual. Like, you could take that picture and put it in, exact match. I really want to know why you seem to think that the Game Manual doesnât answer your question adequately.
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Bumpers like this are no longer ok. Because they are separate pieces.
If you sewed the corners together and made a one piece bumper, then it would be legal. Like this
Itâs hard to see the difference, but the black is one piece of fabric that goes all the way around, while the blue is separate segments. (The noodles themselves, however are cut exactly the same. Mitered)
WHY one is legal, but the other is not, I canât begin to guess and is one of my biggest frustrations right now. But someone decided, and here we are.
Many teams would cut the noodles a little on the short side and end up with a lot less noodles in the corner, and even in best cases (like the ones you posted) the padding is more likely to separate in a corner on collision which is particularly damaging for what ever the mitered corner robot is running into.
Edit: Additionally, I think that teams who do mitered bumpers well will be able to adapt to another corner style pretty easily.
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Is there existing discussion of âjust ban mitered altogetherâ so i can read it? I feel like i recall a thread on the bumper rule update
I donât have know of anything in particular, there are many long threads involving bumper construction so I would imagine it has been brought up. The above reasoning is roughly why the bumper working group recommended banning miter bumpers.