[SRaymond]

at 2370, our tradition is to have the pit crew travel to the competition on wednesday for load in, the rest of the team arriving during practice day. We arrived at WPI for the 2012 game eager to see what our tank of a robot (affectionately named OverKill) could do on the field. Everything was going well right up until inspection time...
Our robot weighed 20 pounds over the limit. When the rest of the team (myself included) walked in around lunch, we came to see the robot not in the tank-like form we knew and loved with its 10 inch wheels for height over the mid-field bump, but rather came to see a machine that looked something akin to a truck with prius tires installed. We had to drop down to 6 inch wheels, and got so desperate to shed weight we ended up ditching one of the polycarb protection panels in favor of mesh netting. our robot played well, but it wasn't the same monster we dreamed of seeing on the field...