To deadweight or not

[Jibri Wright]

Originally Posted by JamesCH95

Making the weight easily removable so that you can be a 'heavyweight' for matches were you expect to play a lot of defense, and a 'lightweight' where you expect to play mostly offense might be the best of both worlds.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't you have to get re-inspected every time you changed the weight of the robot, even if it is pre-planned?

[JamesCH95]

Originally Posted by Jibri Wright

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't you have to get re-inspected every time you changed the weight of the robot, even if it is pre-planned?

See [R5]

The ROBOT weight may not exceed 120 lbs. When determining weight, the basic ROBOT structure and all elements of all additional MECHANISMS that might be used in different configurations of the ROBOT shall be weighed together.

And more importantly, [T8]

At the time of Inspection, the ROBOT must be presented with all MECHANISMS (including all COMPONENTS of each MECHANISM), configurations, and decorations that will be used on the ROBOT during the entire competition event. It is acceptable, however, for a ROBOT to play MATCHES with a subset of the MECHANISMS that were present during Inspection. Only MECHANISMS that were present during the Inspection may be added, removed or reconfigured between MATCHES. If MECHANISMS are changed between MATCHES, the reconfigured ROBOT must still meet all Inspection criteria.

So, presuming you got inspected with all the weights attached, and all possible mechanisms attached/present, you could remove any of the weights at any time with no issues.

[Jibri Wright]

Ok cool thanks