What is a Box?

[Fletch1373]

Originally Posted by slijin

I suspect that this team made modifications to their robot throughout their competition that resulted in them being a pound overweight when elimination inspections rolled around.

Either that, or the scales ruled against them. They've been known to have an error margin of at least +-.25lb, if not greater.

Little known fact(at least in CT and possibly other new england area regionals):

When we do the reinspection prior to elims, we typically compare the current weight(with bumpers and battery on) to the original robot weight + the bumper weight(originally weighed separately) + 15lb allowance for battery

This gives teams roughly 2 lbs of leeway... if you're still overweight, then you changed something that probably should've required that you get reinspected. If you didn't get reinspected, and you should've, you get angry lead inspectors having "a little chat" with your team...