Weight Issues in Regionals

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2 Stories from 1278:
in 2005 we really didnet have a good scale to weigh our robot, So we had this bad mentality of "We have X pounds to work with", we ended up being about 2 pounds over. This year, we had access to a much better scale, so we knew how much we had to work with, so again we had the mentality of " We have X pounds to work with" This year were overweight by about .8 pounds. i find it humorus that even with access to a better scale were still slightly over weight.

Now for the funnier story: We were weighing our robot before ship. Since the room with the scale is pretty small, only the mentors and the team captian came in to weigh, the rest of the team had to wait outside. we were discussing our slight overweight issue when someone came up with the bright idea to tell the team we were 50 pounds over. I decided to try it, I walked out with a look of pure disgust on my face and kept repeating to myself "What can we loose? what can we loose?" Trying to be as serious as possible. One of the build team members asked how much we were over. I looked him dead in the eye and said "50 pounds, i have no idea what we can loose to make weight" The room went dead silent, the look of "Oh Shoot" was on everyone faces. finally i couldnet take the pressure any longer and broke out laughing and explained how much we were over, and that the 50 pound statment was a joke. Most people found it pretty funny, but i did get a punch or two in the arm from some of the students!