CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #416

[Billfred]

As with every other caption contest divisible by 52--this one's the last before a reset!

The scores after the last round:

EricH 168
JaneYoung 160
Taylor 153
rsisk 136
GaryVoshol 120
DonRotolo 107
Ninja_Bait 101
Al Skierkiewicz 99
EricS-Team180 94
S.P.A.M.er 17 92
rachelholladay 86
Wayne Doenges 86
Jim Wilks 69
Katie_UPS 66
Karibou 65
dodar 64
PAR_WIG1350 60
J.Warsoff 59
Bill_B 55
SuperNerd256 55
Joe G. 52
Molten 51
akoscielski3 35
kstl99 33
IndySam 30
nitneylion452 30
dlavery 27
Travis Hoffman 26
Hallry 23
cgmv123 23
HedgeHogGal99 18
George1902 17
Peck 17
Frenchie461 16
Josh Drake 14
Rangel(kf7fdb) 12
Dr Theta 12
Vermeulen 10
FRC4ME 9
Colin P 9
DRAKE2751 8
dictionaria13 8
iPenguin 8
rtfgnow 6
Q. Sheets 6
Cody Burd 6
Andy Baker 5
Chris is me 4
LemmingBot 3
kramarczyk 3
Flak-Bait 3
stundt1 3
BeltSanderRocks 3
CNettles11 3
Cynette 2
flameout 2
Nick Lawrence 2
O'Sancheski 2
Brandon_L 2
Alex Cormier 2
plnyyanks 2
Tyler Olds 2
In1g0M0nt0ya 2
msimon785 1
SparxProgrammer 1
GCentola 1
Barry Bonzack 1
robokiller 1
~Cory~ 1
delsaner 1
Kyle A 1
Sam Drake 1
Littleswimmer14 1
P. Fuller 1
Grim Tuesday 1
Mr. Pockets 1
Jeff Rodriguez 1
mesamb1 1
jdh042397 1
Peter Matteson 1
popnbrown 1
gracie. 1
Duke461 1

And, as is traditional for the end-of-year contests, this one's a video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw7jghN2rSU

As always, the deadline is nominally Saturday at midnight Eastern.

Go!

[akoscielski3]

With the new control system, team 665 thought they would need bigger and better Victor Fans!

[cgmv123]

Fans belong in the stands cheering, not in the lab threatening to bust up your hand, or on a robot making it go out of control.

[Boe]

"bigger and faster fans, because you never want your FP's to overheat"

[Andrew Lawrence]

Well that cooling system's just *takes off glasses* FANtastic!
AAAAAAAAAWWWWW YYYYEEEEEEEEAAAAAAA (http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&safe=off&gbv=2&tbm=isch&tbnid=B48A6XhOjzLxGM:&imgrefurl=http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/aww-yea-guy&docid=osL_ayoBCnd83M&imgurl=http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/106/887/backpain-1292835351.jpg&w=348&h=232&ei=mOLnT4WwOeHi2QXT4tTZCQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=297&vpy=150&dur=490&hovh=183&hovw=275&tx=142&ty=111&sig=114606127730212772757&page=1&tbnh=124&tbnw=175&start=0&ndsp=19&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0,i:78&biw=1280&bih=605)

[Peck]

The fan was going 28 mph? Let's throw a flux capacitor on that thing and see if we can give it another 60. Just think, we could send all our heat back or to the future.

[dodar]

When the mentors of Team 665 told their students they had no way to go to the World Championships the students had only one response, "Challenge Accepted."

[Jim Wilks]

The team was told that team spirit was lagging and that they needed more fans. Here's the first effort from the build team to address that.

[Taylor]

Generally I'm no fan of wooden robots, but this apparatus blew me away.

[Ninja_Bait]

Captain, my initial tricorder scans indicate that this device is moving so quickly that it can phase between dimensions, resulting in the appearance of disappearance. However, I believe we can harness this technology to make entire robots disappear as well.

[EricH]

665 has discovered what they think is a new way to win: Blow the competition away.


Unfortunately, they don't have enough thrust to blow away even one person.

[JaneYoung]

Mentor: Who knew?! When we came up with this design, we weren't blowing smoke!

[dictionaria13]

Mentor, thinking: If that's how fast we need to rotate the fan to make it invisible, how fast would I need to be rotated, and could I manage it without getting sick?

[DonRotolo]

We all knew that 665's mentor was a Desk Jockey, but this crosses the line...

no chance of winning this year, I guess... sigh.

[rsisk]

This is what happens when you vote on a design without enough brainstorming. You get the flying robot.

[EricS-Team180]

But, would it give them a competitive edge?
The answer, my friend, was blowin' in the wind.

[PAR_WIG1350]

I've heard people complaining about computer fans louder than that (note: it was the complaining that was loud, the fans themselves were actually quite reasonable in my opinion).

[Karibou]

It's a little late to be figuring how to cool down the pits in Disney*, but better late than never.


*or the gym at MARC.

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Ok, the first thought was "how much air can we push at 'ludicrous speed'?" The second was "did anybody bother to check what the max RPM before destruction specification might be?" Once they had their empirical data then it was a matter of burning some chalk to arrive at an equation that could render "ludicrous speed" from prop length and pitch knowing CIM free speed. Still waiting for that to be published.
When is face protection not enough?

[GaryVoshol]

"So if we build a fan that no one can see, can we use it to get better traction in Lunacy?"

[rachelholladay]

You know, video editing technology has advanced quite a bit, so you never really can be sure of what you see..or don't see.

[Bill_B]

The first tip for fans is to put a tip on them so you can see them as they spin. This must be done before they start spinning.

[DonRotolo]

Update to my entry:

We all knew that 665's mentor was a Desk Pilot, but this crosses the line...


We all knew that 665's mentor was a Desk Jockey, but this crosses the line...

no chance of winning this year, I guess... sigh.

[Billfred]

Here goes...well, everything!

First place goes to:

Mentor, thinking: If that's how fast we need to rotate the fan to make it invisible, how fast would I need to be rotated, and could I manage it without getting sick?

Second place goes to:

When the mentors of Team 665 told their students they had no way to go to the World Championships the students had only one response, "Challenge Accepted."


Honorable mentions go to:

1) Peck
2) JaneYoung
3) Ninja_Bait
4) Bill_B
5) DonRotolo
6) EricH
7) Al Skierkiewicz
8) PAR_WIG1350
9) EricS-Team180

And the last burn award of the year goes to:

It's a little late to be figuring how to cool down the pits in Disney*, but better late than never.


*or the gym at MARC.

Which means the final scores for the eighth year of the caption contest are:

EricH 170
JaneYoung 162
Taylor 154
rsisk 137
GaryVoshol 121
DonRotolo 109
Ninja_Bait 103
Al Skierkiewicz 101
EricS-Team180 96
S.P.A.M.er 17 92
rachelholladay 87
Wayne Doenges 86
Jim Wilks 70
dodar 69
Karibou 68
Katie_UPS 66
PAR_WIG1350 62
J.Warsoff 59
Bill_B 57
SuperNerd256 56
Joe G. 52
Molten 51
akoscielski3 36
kstl99 33
IndySam 30
nitneylion452 30
dlavery 27
Travis Hoffman 26
cgmv123 24
Hallry 23
Peck 19
dictionaria13 18
HedgeHogGal99 18
George1902 17
Frenchie461 16
Josh Drake 14
Rangel(kf7fdb) 12
Dr Theta 12
Vermeulen 10
FRC4ME 9
Colin P 9
DRAKE2751 8
iPenguin 8
rtfgnow 6
Q. Sheets 6
Cody Burd 6
Andy Baker 5
Chris is me 4
LemmingBot 3
kramarczyk 3
Flak-Bait 3
stundt1 3
BeltSanderRocks 3
CNettles11 3
Cynette 2
flameout 2
Nick Lawrence 2
O'Sancheski 2
Brandon_L 2
Alex Cormier 2
plnyyanks 2
Tyler Olds 2
In1g0M0nt0ya 2
msimon785 1
SparxProgrammer 1
GCentola 1
Barry Bonzack 1
robokiller 1
~Cory~ 1
delsaner 1
Kyle A 1
Sam Drake 1
Littleswimmer14 1
P. Fuller 1
Grim Tuesday 1
Mr. Pockets 1
Jeff Rodriguez 1
mesamb1 1
jdh042397 1
Peter Matteson 1
popnbrown 1
gracie. 1
Duke461 1
Boe 1

And, as is usual, some awards from the 1,187 entries this year:

Year 8 Champion: EricH (170 points)
Year 8 Runner-Up: JaneYoung (162 points)

Most Wins: EricH (7)
Most Runner-Ups: Taylor (7)
The Travis Hoffman Memorial Burn Award Award: Taylor (6)
The Always-The-Bridesmaid Award: Wayne Doenges (86 points without winning a contest)
Mr. Clean Award: JaneYoung (162 points without getting a burn award)
Mr. Tenacity Award: rachelholladay (30 singles)
Funniest Team in FRC: FRC 180, SPAM (205 combined points)

Perfect Year: EricH, rsisk, GaryVoshol, Ninja_Bait each entered all 52 contests. Other notable runs include JaneYoung and Taylor (51) and DonRotolo and rachelholladay (50)

Onward!