[Jon Stratis]

We weighed today, and yes, it's going to be close. Closer than I think we've had in a long time (usually we're looking to add some weight around this point in the season). So, we started a couple of small projects to shave some weight.

We're going to save about 2 lbs (up high, no less!) replacing some 1" angle diagonal cross members (only there to keep things square) with some cables that'll do the same job while in tension - it's a difference of about 150g per cross member, and there are 6 of them.

Another couple of lbs will be shed by replacing some polycarb side shields with corrugated plastic (The shields are mostly there for sponsor stickers and branding purposes).

We're hoping to get the weight low enough to allow us to add some simple bumpers on 2, possibly three sides (attached in <60 seconds on the field). The two sides would help with concerns over an alliance member hitting the side plates and affecting our drive train, and the third one is mostly for visual appeal, although it would add a little extra protection for our battery.