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Re: About being overweight and exceeding your size requirements – the need for reinsp

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Originally Posted by Kims Robot
(...) maybe thats just my "old age" talking!
Heh. I have shoes older than you.

My 2 cents. Sometimes, measuring is a way of keeping honest people honest. The old business term is, "inspect what you expect." A quick weight check in the queue waiting to compete would let teams know if they had a little weight creep. Knowing that this check is coming would help teams focus on weight issues as they tweak and fiddle. I'm not a rules freak here -- if a team weighed a little too much (like 1% over), I would give them a provisional pass on the grounds that they submitted to an official weight check before their next match.

This would require an additional scale, and maybe one additional volunteer, but it would keep the focus on weight during the competition.

Confession: We needed to add a reinforcing bar to the back of Maverick at PNW, and we already knew the bar in question would add 14 ounces to our weight. We pulled a globe motor off and put the bar on, and assumed our weight was still OK. I'm nearly sure we were OK, but we would have taken Maverick to the scales to make sure if we had known there were at least spot checks on weight.

Also, let me join my voice to those that think the specific 13-pound problem way up there could very well have been the battery. I would truly hate to think that someone was just plain old NASCAR cheating.
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