Driver Station Weight Limit

[Hadi379]

At the Midwest regional, we were asked to let inspectors take pictures of our driver station and also weigh the entire setup, laptop joysticks and all. attached is an image of our driver station. I guess their concern may be with the weight of these setups with camera polls and the strength of the shelf supporting it.

We have never had any issues with ours through two regionals, but I can see the reason to be worried. All of our components are velcroed down to the DS and the DS is velcroed underneath to the shelf.

There was hint that FIRST was considering applying a weight limit to the DS, maybe 30lbs, the setup you see in the image was approx. 45lbs.

We are planning accordingly for worlds, and I was curious to see an update today regarding this matter.

Did any other teams experience this?