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Re: Examples of when it is not advantageous to be lightweight

I would second the bridge balancing from 2012, as I remember adding weight that year for that exact purpose. We were maybe 20 pounds under, so balancing with robots at the weight limit was hard before weights... (Exact numbers fuzzy, I was a freshman. I seem to remember 102.)

We also added weight in 2013 so that our robot hung right when it was climbing--a different application for CG.