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Originally Posted by Anupam Goli

Might as well ask this in the thread:

Would a creative way of displaying Team Number count towards your weight allowance? Per the manual,

Team numbers aren't really a mechanism, so I'm thinking we don't need to weigh those with the robot. However, the manual explicitly states that bumpers count towards weight this year, leading me to believe that any creative solution to numbering our robot may end up counting against our weight budget...

I'll be sure to ask in the Q&A, but I'd like to hear some opinions and thoughts on this.

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

I think they used the wrong word in R4. Instead of "MECHANISMS", it probably should be "COMPONENTS" - or perhaps "MECHANISMS and COMPONENTS".

Surely they don't mean to say that any removable COMPONENTS don't count in ROBOT weight. If so, you could remove a whole lot of COMPONENTS to meet weight, and then add them back on at will.

But this wouldn't apply to the team numbers - that placard is a part of your basic ROBOT structure. A ROBOT isn't a legal ROBOT unless the numbers are correctly displayed.

This is lawyering the rules. The intent of the weight limit seems to be that everything but the battery counts toward the ROBOT weight.