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I think it’s around 235 lbs
134 Ibs
Does guessing with scales count?
I’ll say 275 pounds.
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Id say each wall of the frame is like 50, mats maybe 10, so around 210?
Anywhere from 69 to 420 pounds.
6 pounds? maybe 7
maybe somewhere around 48763 grams
202 lbs
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According to the cad of the field perimeter (with alliance towers) it weighs 1.270E+5 g, or 279.987073 lbs
I’m glad to see you are working very hard starting your first year of college. 
Too late to let CAD do your bidding.
Technically @anon4126930 was closer, but using a scale, really!! We’ll give it to @DrewWHOOP
The correct answer is “278-1501 Competition Field Perimeter Kit weights 152 Lbs”
Thanks to Chance in VEX sales for helping me out today.
So we want to figure out the weight of a VRC field?
To do this, we need to know how much a field perimeter segment weighs. Seeing as I do not have one on me, we’ll need to find a substitute with approximately the same weight.
Now we run into a problem. If we don’t have a perimeter segment, how will we know what is of approximately equal weight to it? That’s easy. This year on 2/28 was my states event, and after that tournament, I had to carry some field perimeter segments back into our lab after the event.
Luckily, I have some FitBit data for that day. It tells me that in the time I was carrying the field elements back and forth, I burned approximately 204 calories.
For the sake of argument, let’s say that I carried ⅓ of the total field elements back to the lab. This is approximately a 3-minute walk, from the car, past security, into the lab. We can estimate that if I carried 4 field segments back from the car to the lab, each 3-minute walk with the perimeter pieces burned about 51 calories.
So now we know that a 3-minute walk with a field piece burns 51 calories. We can then say that if we find the weight of another item that burns 50 calories while walking with it for 3 minutes, we will have found the weight of the field segment.
Unfortunately, I no longer have my FitBit, as it broke in mid-March. This leaves us stuck. How will we find what weight of object burns 51 calories when carried for 3 minutes? No worries, there’s an easy way to do this.
The Oxford English Dictionary has the 1st definition for the word “calorie” as:
This definition has 115 characters in it. I know what you’re thinking. “Obviously, we just need to multiply 155 by 51, duh”. This would seem correct at first glance. But when we look closer, remember that our common definition of a calorie is, in reality, one kilocalorie. A kilocalorie is equal to 1000 calories. This means that we need to multiply our 155 figure by 51,000, not 51. This leaves us with 7,905,000 character-cals or charcals for short.
According to https://www.a1steam.com/design/, the first steam trains were able to go around 350 miles on 9 tons of coal. For our uses, let’s assume that 1 charcal is equivalent to one cubic foot of charcoal.
A cubic foot of charcoal weight around 85 pounds, according to https://www.aqua-calc.com. We have 7,905,000 cubic feet of coal, which equates to approximately 671,925,000 pounds. This is equal to 335,962.5 tons of coal. On this supply of coal, our train can run approximately 13,065,200 miles.
Going back to a1steam.com, our train needs to consume around 45 gallons of water per mile, needing to refill on water after 100 miles. With these numbers, our train uses approximately 4,500 gallons of water every 100 miles.
Over the course of the 13,065,200 miles that our coal can allow for, we need approximately 1,306,520,000 gallons of water. The density of water in lbs/gallon is 8.34. If we multiply this by our number for gallons, we get 10,896,376,000 pounds. This is the weight of our field segment.
Since there are 12 field segments in a VRC field, we can say that our entire field perimeter weights around 130,756,520,000 pounds. For the sake of accuracy (we can’t be forgetting that!), let’s throw in 20 pounds for the tiles, and 10 pounds for the competition control towers.
This brings us to 130,756,520,030 pounds as the weight of a full VRC field. @Jobe, you better invest in a quite strong cart indeed.
New question, same rules. I’ll let this run for about the next 12 hours.
How much does this season’s full field and game element kit weigh?
Oh, come on! I just finish doing all of that hard math, and the challenge ends just like that?!?!?!?!
still guessing 227 lbs
If I did actually get picked I would’ve dropped out from the guessing game. To be honest I was relatively stressed with an assignment that I spent 7+ hours so far on. I needed to distract myself for a bit in order to complete the assignment and its grit, and that timing was perfect. Also, I think I missed a bit due to not including the monitor stand which is probably heavy steel (and I am guessing is what the bulk of the remaining 18 Ibs are for, right?)
thank you taran very cool