One hint for everyone who builds a robot that fits "perfectly": build it one inch smaller in all directions next time. Ask yourself how much of an advantage you gain by keeping that inch, and consider what happens if your frame gets twisted, or you want to add something, or the inspection box is undersized (and nobody notices). Also remember that you can't be pushing on the walls of the bounding box (or the virtual walls, in the case of this year's sizing box); you must fit inside unconstrained.
There are probably cases where you need to build your robot almost exactly to the maximum size, but realistically, most maximum-sized robots aren't examples of this.
Also, as we're on the topic, remember to keep track of weight. There was one team at GTR which arrived something like 37 pounds overweight (due to their own malfunctioning scale). Don't let that happen to you!
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Originally Posted by TubaMorg
BTW does anyone know why lbs. is an abbreviation for pounds?
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It's from the Latin,
librum, for scale.