"Spare Parts" Rules Are Broken

[Kris Verdeyen]

Originally Posted by Astronouth7303

...But the plastic sprockets kept braking. we ran out, and ended up using the steel ones. We had 1 match before the inspectors weighed us. 5 pounds over weight. We ended up taking of the compressor to make weight. This about crippled our arm, the height/angle was powered by pnuematics!

So you actually ran one match with a 135 pound robot? And you still think that it's no big deal? The weight limit, more than anything else, defines the robots that we build. It is a very important rule. Some might say it's the most important robot rule.

If you didn't have the weight to put the steel sprockets on, you should have taken something else off. Weight is the ultimate bogey.

It really sucks that you had to use plastic sprockets, but there is no way I'm going to feel sorry that you had to dump your compressor.