I want to put extra license plates on my robot that say my team’s name and some other stuff. They would be nonfunctional decorations. I know that this is legal as I have seen a lot of other people do it.
My question is that do these decoration plates have to match the color of the alliance I am on? Can I use any color combination as long as it is clear that none of them are the team identification plates, and the team identification plates are also the correct color? Or do I need to have two sets of decoration plates, one red and one blue.
If this question has been answered in the past or if anyone has had a ref say anything to them please tell me. I figured this wasn’t worth getting my mentor to post on the official Q&A as it is pretty minor and they take forever to answer anything. I’m really looking for the opinions of refs and the experiences of other people.
<R20d> Robots must use the colored plates that match their alliance color for each match (i.e. red alliance robots must have their red plates on for the match). It must be abundantly clear which color alliance the robot belongs to.
See the ‘abundantly clear’ clause you quoted. As long as the decoration plates are clearly not your main plates and your alliance color is abundantly obvious, you should be fine. However, different refs have different standards, so don’t expect to necessarily be allowed to use mismatched plates as you described at all competitions.
I’ve seen a lot of name decoration pieces that were non-side-specific. As long as it doesn’t make it unclear what team you are on I don’t see why you’d need multiple sets.
Also it needs to not mess with the V5 vision sensors (which can be VERY SENSITIVE from what we’ve seen!).
That is something I also meant to ask but forgot. Even if they are legal I probably wouldn’t use them if it means messing up the other persons vision sensors. I doubt this would be that much of a problem as most vision sensors point upwards, not down at other robots.