Creative Defense Names

[JR0405]

I bet most of us have heard game announcers call the low bar "the medieval car wash" and the cheval de frise "shovel the fries" but I was wondering what other things people have made up or heard

[Hitchhiker 42]

I've heard announcers, during audience selection, make jokes about the moat and how everyone wanted a water game.

[hotwheel326]

Tom Nader, FIM game announcer, calls Cheval de Frise "Chili Fries"

[BrendanB]

Ramp Rage.

[Richard Wallace]

Tom Nader, FIM game announcer, calls Cheval de Frise "Chili Fries"I like that one. Audience selection generally favors it.

The portcullis is the "Porterhouse", in keeping with the food theme of Cat A.

[Starwarsguy2]

I once saw a head ref call the rock wall the 'rock wall' because it is the only one with quotes around it. Does anybody know why that is? ::rtm::

[ctt956]

I considered starting a thread like this myself, but never really got around to it Here are my unofficial defense names...

Low bar: Since the new flaps, I've sometimes called it "the thing your luggage passes through at the airport", but I like "medieval car wash". I guess it could also be called the robot wash; may even remove boulders!

Portcullis: The Guillotine, "Porticullis"*

Cheval de Frise: Teeter-totter(s), the French thing, shovel the fries, chili fries

Can be applied to more than one defense: Freezer door, the door, low wall

Not really a defense, but I refer to those little round plastic things as "boulder holders".

*There is only one "I" in "portcullis".

[EricH]

I'm sure the field crews have some creative names, but I'm not sure they're printable. Particularly when the rock wall's pins break for the 10th time that morning or the CDF breaks.

Actually, CDF wasn't an uncommon nickname for the Cheval de Frise. About the only one I've really heard.


Well, there's always the "invisible", but that refers to that one Group C defense that almost never shows up.

[TheBoulderite]

Some of us on 1619 call the cheval d'frise the "flippy-flippy."

[IronicDeadBird]

Slam Ramp is chevy
Portcullis is the guillotine

[carpedav000]

I call the rock wall "The Widow-maker" :D

[dmelcer9]

The Portcullis is of course the "Pork Cutlets".

[baldenb]

At some of the PNW district events, the game announcer called it "cheval de easy" when teams successfully crossed the cheval de frise. It was a bit cheval de cheesy.

[coalhot]

Low Bar - "Cat flap"

[HelloRobot]

Tom Nader, FIM game announcer, calls Cheval de Frise "Chili Fries"
A few of my teammates call it the "cheesy fries." I'm sure 245 does too... ;)

Some of us on 1619 call the cheval d'frise the "flippy-flippy."
I like this one.

[fargus111111111]

Cdf: commonly know on 343 as the flippy boards, you are expected to include some appropriate hand gestures to accompany the words.
To differentiate between cdf and ramparts, the ramparts are sometimes called the not-flippy ramps.