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I accidentally weighed our robot with the battery, and we were still way underweight.

It seems like an unusual percentage of teams are underweight htis year. Its a first for us.

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We were at 102.5 pounds. How many teams wait wait until the very last day to weight their bots besides us?

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Yeh it was a huge relief, we were lifting it up and guessing how much we were holding


me:"hey shaver you think you're holding more than 60 pounds?"
shave:"nah feels like 50 if that"
me:"yeh ok me too"


Most of last night and today was spent rebuilding and reinforcing the box, which wasn't the best of quality :ahh:

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Team 1353 according to the most accurate scale available to us which should be accurate to 1/10 of a pound we r right on 120. :yikes:

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we weren't overweight at all. In fact we were underweight - 110 with battery. So, let's hope that's a good thing, shall we? :]

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Don't forget to account for the weight of the LED's for everyone who is right at 120.

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Team 418's robot weighed in at 119.5 at our mini-meet. We took off a couple of things we couldn't get to work and I weighed them in at about a pound. So I figure we have just enough weight to spare to put on the new lights and still feel comfortable.

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For the first time, we too are underweight. We weighed in at 105 this afternoon. Every other year we have been right at the weight limit.

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It's the most amazing feeling in the world when you find out that you can replace a fisher price motor and lots of wiring and channel with a simple, lightweight mechanical device that does the same thing.

We were about 4 lbs over, but we took off 4.9 lbs right before it was heaved into the crate, and we have about a pound in wires and limit switches that can be removed at competition teams. My question to all the teams that finished amazingly underweight: what was the difference? What made this year the year that your bots all went on diets? I'm curious as to the source of this phenomenon.

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Diet? We kept track of what we weighed from when we had something to weigh to late last night. As weight guy, I did that personally and estimated what was unavailable. Weight estimate on Friday:104.566 pounds. Actual weight: 105. Add more materials until Monday night. Current estimate (unverified): 113.8. I don't think I'm missing much, either.

--Eric