Loss of Gracious Professionalism Among First Teams

[The Lucas]

Originally posted by Elgin Clock
I mean we all have the weight issue to deal with and we have come up with some real wacky ideas to cut weight, such as, of course the above mentioned action, drilling holes in the air tank, putting helium in the tires, and all kinds of other dumb, but logical things of reducing weight. But the logical approach is not always the most legal thing to do.

Last year, I toiled endlessly in the lab trying to make electrons lighter, but alas I had no success. Everyone said I was crazy b/c electrons weight almost nothing, but I was quick to point out that there are like 10^million of them in the bot. It was very annoying to charge the bot to -10,000V before every weigh-in. I can still taste the peanut butter from that last shock at nats. Curse that Florida humidity.

On a serious note, the weigh-in is a very important part of gracious professionalism. Last year, teams called us on weight several times when we changed wings, but we had already weighed in under 130 before every match in question. If we had violated gracious professionalism so blatantly, we would have no choice but to give back the Regional Chairman's Award at Drexel.