It is impossible... ...until there is no other way...

[Mr. Pockets]

So we were weighing our robot before re-bagging it. We had built our hanger and upper superstructure separate and easily detachable so that we could keep working on the hanger as part of the withholding allowance.

Anywho, so we had apparently already weighed the upper segment and it had come in at like 44 lbs. We put the bottom half on the scale and it comes back at 80 lbs. So naturally, what with it being only a day or two before competition, everyone is less than happy. There were a bunch of bouncing suggestions, but quite frankly 4 lbs is quite holes to drill.

While everyone is proposing different ideas I went over to the upper section with a few of the other mentors. We figured that it was worth a shot weighing it again, it'd have been a big shame if the robot were torn apart over a mistaken weight. To everyone's surprise and relief the upper half had managed an impressive dieting program over the past few days. The scale read it in at 36 lbs. We're still not quite sure how the whole thing happened, but we certainly aren't complaining.

When it was inspected and weighed at competitions it came in at 120 lbs exact. Gotta love those sort of numbers ^_^