Enough with the bumpers!

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Posted by colleen.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]

Other on team #246, a FIRST-aholic, from John D. O’Byrant High School/Boston Latin Academy/Madison HS and NSTAR/Boston University/Wentworth Institute of Technology/MassPEP.

Posted on 1/12/2000 11:34 PM MST

There’s nothing in the rules that says you HAVE to have bumpers!!

If you don’t like them, think they’re sissy, you don’t have to put them on your robot!!

It’s simply an OPTION FIRST is opening to teams that may have a disadvantage in experience (aka Rookies) so they have more of a chance and don’t get broken robots so easily!

It seems there’s just a lot of complaints about bumpers as if they were a requirement… if you can do it without them, more power to ya, but FIRST is just opening more doors…go with it…

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Posted by Dan Glidewell.

Engineer on team #74, Holland FIRST Robotics Team, from Holland High School and Haworth.

Posted on 1/13/2000 7:05 AM MST

In Reply to: Enough with the bumpers! posted by colleen on 1/12/2000 11:34 PM MST:

I doubt that our team (#74) will use bumpers, but hopefully, rookie teams will. We play by the rules and we play to win.

Team #74 The HOTHEADS, have been around for six years now and we know the importance of making ‘tank tough’ 'bots. All of our functional parts will be built for agressive, effective, action-packed competition.

We don’t need no pitty-patty bumpers!

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Posted by Bethany Dunning.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]

Coach on team #349, RoBahamas, from International Academy and Ford Motor Company.

Posted on 1/13/2000 11:24 AM MST

In Reply to: Enough with the bumpers! posted by colleen on 1/12/2000 11:34 PM MST:

Do bumpers mean bumpers stickers? :slight_smile: I brake for potentiometers? Late night pizza? Robotics competitions? Floppies? (oh, wait, that was last year!)