Weight Issues in Regionals

[Lil' Lavery]

Well, normally 116 is pretty close on weight, no more than a couple pounds over, but this year....
Ship date, we are weighing the robot 3 hours before it has to be crated to be sent away.
Weight: 142 lbs, and that is without our electronics board (but with our two side bumpers), so therefore we were about 147 pounds, 27 pounds overweight.
Scrap our conveyor system (which delivered balls to our shooter), scrap our turret, scrap our camera, reduce our superstructure weight, trim bolts, etc etc etc.
At competition we were 4 oz.s underweight

[Kims Robot]

1511 put its robot pieces on the scale on sunday morning before ship... and had to lose 20lbs while preping our pre-ship scrimmage!! We did it.. we lost 20lbs in 6 hours, without ANY loss of functionality... we cut we drilled, we hacksawed, we ground, we removed extra nuts and bolts... it was crazy... best crash diet I've ever seen... I only hope that our scale matches the one at the regional, cuz we are going to be close!!