CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #34

[Billfred]

Yep, it's me again.

Here are the scores:


Gary Dillard 91
MissInformation 91
T. Hoffman 77
Dlavery 76
Greencactus3 73
Dorienne Plait 58
JVN 54
Rich Wong 53
Jay H 237 53
DCA Fan 50
Andy Baker 46
Michelle 236 45
Amanda Morrison 45
GateRunner 45
Eugenia Gabrielov 42
Elgin Clock 41
Greg Needel 41
Bcahn836 38
EddieMcD 36
"Big Mike" 34
Tkwetzel 34
Brandon Martus 29
Jeff Waegelin 27
VGMasterShadow 26
Matt Attallah 25
Kyle45 24
JosephM 23
Koko Ed 21
Shyra1353 19
Mike Ciance 18
Squirrelrock 18
Richardp 17
Lil' Lavery 16
Astronouth7303 15
Arefin Bari 14
Nehalita 12
Tom Schindler 12
DanielBCR 11
Jessica Boucher 10
Wetzel 10
Steve W 9
Aignam 9
Killerofkiller 7
Jack Jones 7
Vivelation 7
Meli W. 7
George1083 6
RogerR 6
ZACH P. 6
Pit Bull 1126 6
Ken Patton 4
Corey Balint 4
CourtneyB 4
Denman 4
JamizzleHavok13 4
Yan Wang 4
David Kelly 3
Andrew Rudolph 3
Ben Lauer 3
DJ Fluck 3
Marc P. 3
Robo hottie71 3
Stephen Kowski 3
Barry Bonzack1604 2
Cory 2
Ecarlson 2
EnderofDragon 2
EricS-Team180 2
Jake177 2
Jdiwnab 2
Jeff_Rice 2
Joe Ross 2
Joshua May 2
Karinka13 2
Tom Bottiglieri 2
Tytus Gerrish 2
Cyberguy34000 2
Aaron Lussier 1
Bill Gold 1
Coco The Monkey 1
Collin Fultz 1
DanielBCR 1
ElfMaster 1
Eria4044 1
IMDWalrus 1
JakeGallagher 1
Katie Reynolds 1
Lisa Perez 1
MATT_kaplan108 1
Sanddrag 1

And the picture...

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pictures.php?s=&action=single&picid=8168&direction=DESC&sort=date&perrow=4&trows=10&quiet=Verbose

(Here's a hint--don't close the window of your picture, then copy your scores over. This contest would've had five extra minutes if it weren't for that.)

Ah well...as always, Midnight Saturday. (I feel like I should give richardp the Price Is Right Award for coming the closest to the deadline without going over. Seriously, go look--it was exactly midnight on Saturday.)

Go!

[Alex Cormier]

remember those wheres the filling commercials?

entry 1:
Where is the basketball?

[Arefin Bari]

Team 237 cheering: Think you can play basketball, try to dunk over our robot. ya... what what what what ... thats what we thought.

[tkwetzel]

In an attempt to teach Elgin how to play basketball, team 237's drivers bust out the moves. In the end, Elgin was a lost cause, but team 237 got some valuble practice in.

[nehalita]

The robot was big,
The robot was bad,
It made all others jealous
It made all others mad

The robot was challenged to dunk
And we wished it the best of luck
The robot surely did it
But now it's just stuck....

[Bcahn836]

After taking on the top teams in the world of FIRST Robotics Team 237 thought it would be a great idea to challenge the local high school basketball team. WoW look at that hang time :ahh: :ahh: :ahh:

[Rich Wong]

"In your face Shaq O'Neil!"

(no hasketball was damage in this demo) ;)

[Travis Hoffman]

What happens when "Guido", Team 237's well-meaning but colorblind and shape-recognition-challenged autonomous robot programmer, mistakenly calibrates his robot's vision camera to track orange circles instead of yellow triangles? You get this result. Now that's some relentless programming!

Guido now makes $10,000,000 a year building robot player replacements for the NBA. See if you ever make fun of another colorblind person again! HA!

[Koko Ed]

Team 237 celebrated wildly as their robot had dunked in the winning shot but did not notice that the basket was waved off and the team was called for a technical foul because the robot was hanging on the rim.

[Joe Matt]

Team mentor: "I'm not mad, I'm just amazed how you got it up there with the arm fully extended..."

[Dorienne]

Announcer: Wow, not only did that robot slam dunk it, but it gave 50 extra points to their alliance! Sheesh, Bob, I can't believe it...this robot knows how to score and score well!

[Jay H 237]

Hmmmm, I wonder if I'm exempt since I was there and took part in said photo. ;)


<now for my entry>

Having realized the arm 237 designed was somewhat weak the braintrust (ie. engineers) of 237 decided to have it do 100 pull-ups everyday for a week to strengthen those arm cylinders.

[Brandon Martus]

Slap the backboard like Shaq 'cause I dunk off the pass. --Zebrahead.

[Daniel Brim]

"Man, we really need a shot clock..."

[Amanda Morrison]

Shortly thereafter, Ron Artest threw a fit, a fan threw a beverage, and Team 237 was forced to leave the court with a towel over their electronics panel.

I still blame Detroit.

[Stephen Kowski]

Billfred: 'I call shenanigans--not only with the rusty steel pole not being legal, but we can clearly see that is photoshopped.'
Elgin: 'Ok, it is true that the rusty pole is not really there - caught us again billfred'

[Gary Dillard]

Team 237's shameless attempts to attract Nike as a corporate sponsor proved futile; According to Elgin, "If only we could have grabbed the big balls, things would have been different."

[Elgin Clock]

What happens when "Guido", Team 237's well-meaning but colorblind and shape-recognition-challenged autonomous robot programmer, mistakenly calibrates his robot's vision camera to track orange circles instead of yellow triangles? You get this result. Now that's some relentless programming!

Guido now makes $10,000,000 a year building robot player replacements for the NBA. See if you ever make fun of another colorblind person again! HA!<not an entry>
The funny thing is that we DO have a mentor we nicknamed Guido - Well, actually he gave himself that nickname, but it still is funny.
It would be even more funny if he were a mentor on the programming team, and not the mechanical team.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Also, the funny thing about that day, was that we did this at a D.A.R.E. day event, and the kids enjoyed it this sight so much, the 4 cops that were standing in the vicinity, and also watching from a distance, had grins on their faces. I was expecting them to yell at us, but they were cool about it. :cool:
</not an entry>

[killerofkiller]

"team 237's original design was to make a robot that could bowl. they where sucessful, but the idea of bowling balls going 200 ft/s did not appleal to the team after 5 members lost their legs"
"now sucessful with basket ball, a DDR robot is in the planning phase

[richardp]

Ah well...as always, Midnight Saturday. (I feel like I should give richardp the Price Is Right Award for coming the closest to the deadline without going over. Seriously, go look--it was exactly midnight on Saturday.)
<NOT ENTRY>
I also agree since that would help my average score and hopefully make me as funny as Gary Dillard. As close as that was I still think that 116's chairmans award was more impressive, with only 10 seconds to spare. (I am only waiting to think of something funny before I post an entry)
</NOT ENTRY>

[Kevin Kolodziej]

And at the end of the day, the 237 robot was left hanging, still waiting for the alli-oupe from Dave Lavery. His excuse - he heard there was a new Krispy Kreme store opening.

[Shu Song]

It's FIRST's version of Yao Ming

[Jay Trzaskos]

Me :Is that JVN by those cars?
Aaron :I don't think so. Well actually...
Me :Oh my god theres a robot hanging on the rim!! Where the heck did that come from?
Aaron :Yeah, well now that you mention it i think it is JVN....

[Gary Dillard]

..... and hopefully make me as funny as Gary Dillard.

<not an entry> As long as you're Heidi's minion, that AIN'T gonna happen. However, if you can somehow prevent MissI from entering the contest this week....... </not an entry>

[Billfred]

<obviously not an entry>

Actually Gary, you technically have the lead in the contest, by virtue of having a higher average score. Now, if you two had the same average score, then technically you'd still be listed over Heidi (G comes before M in the alphabet), but I'd be calling it a tie.

And Gary and Richard, don't forget The Heidi Foster Rule.</non-entry of obviousness>

[Andy Baker]

It's better to build a robot and lose a match than to have ever played basketball at all.


(stolen from an old wrestling team slogan)
Andy B.

[MissInformation]

Note to self: Never, ever lend your car keys to anyone from team 237.

[dlavery]

When Jessica told Team 237 that she needed them to "hang around for a while," I'm not sure that this was what she had in mind...

[richardp]

Team 237 PR specialist: (Smacks himself in head)
Students: "We did what you said...honest!"
PR: "Why do you guys take it so literally?(*sigh*).........This is not what I meant when I said we needed more air time!"

<Not Entry>
As long as you're Heidi's minion, that AIN'T gonna happen. However, if you can somehow prevent MissI from entering the contest this week.......
What is considered means of engineering? Also Gary when I get the video clip, I will start a thread on my attempt (i mean the robots attempt) to take out Heidi. But note even my own attempts, being and inside source failed so I guess it can't be done. I was funnier than you until last week so don't say it AIN'T gonna happen and second don't use AIN'T </Not Entry>

[Cyberguy34000]

And they sports are no fun anymore...

Just wait till we get program the players :)

[DCA Fan]

And they say robotics isn't a sport....hah we proved them wrong!

[JamizzleHavok13]

"Pulling down boards like Rodman, woo woo!" (American Hi-Fi)

[Eugenia Gabrielov]

Team 237 takes a tip from the best, and gets their robot set to pick up some ladies.

Girl: That's a miiiighty fine robot you've got there.
Robot: Go back to Indiana, shorty.

[Matt Attallah]

[not caption]

...I still blame Detroit.http://overtorqued.net/forum/images/smilies/cry.gifhttp://www.overtorqued.net/forum/images/smilies/idmo2.gif

Indy started it...:D

[/not caption]

"Hoop, there it is"

[greencactus3]

wonder if Buddy can beat that

[Billfred]

Alright, so Arefin gets team 179...wait a second, wrong spreadsheet. (switches to the caption contest spreadsheet)

So first place goes to...

What happens when "Guido", Team 237's well-meaning but colorblind and shape-recognition-challenged autonomous robot programmer, mistakenly calibrates his robot's vision camera to track orange circles instead of yellow triangles? You get this result. Now that's some relentless programming!

Guido now makes $10,000,000 a year building robot player replacements for the NBA. See if you ever make fun of another colorblind person again! HA!
Second place...

Shortly thereafter, Ron Artest threw a fit, a fan threw a beverage, and Team 237 was forced to leave the court with a towel over their electronics panel.
Honorable mentions...
nehalita
tkwetzel
Bcahn836
MissInformation
dlavery
richardp
Stephen Kowski
Koko Ed
JosephM
killerofkiller
Dorienne Plait
Jay H 237

And the burn award...
And at the end of the day, the 237 robot was left hanging, still waiting for the alli-oupe from Dave Lavery. His excuse - he heard there was a new Krispy Kreme store opening.
So the scores are...

MissInformation 93
Gary Dillard 92
T. Hoffman 87
Dlavery 78
Greencactus3 73
Dorienne Plait 60
Jay H 237 55
JVN 54
Rich Wong 54
DCA Fan 51
Amanda Morrison 50
Andy Baker 47
Michelle 236 45
GateRunner 45
Eugenia Gabrielov 43
Elgin Clock 41
Greg Needel 41
Bcahn836 40
Tkwetzel 36
EddieMcD 36
"Big Mike" 34
Brandon Martus 30
Jeff Waegelin 27
VGMasterShadow 26
Matt Attallah 25
JosephM 25
Kyle45 24
Koko Ed 23
Richardp 19
Shyra1353 19
Mike Ciance 18
Squirrelrock 18
Lil' Lavery 16
Arefin Bari 15
Astronouth7303 15
Nehalita 14
DanielBCR 13
Tom Schindler 12
Jessica Boucher 10
Wetzel 10
Killerofkiller 9
Steve W 9
Aignam 9
Jack Jones 7
Vivelation 7
Meli W. 7
Pit Bull 1126 7
George1083 6
Robo hottie71 6
RogerR 6
ZACH P. 6
Stephen Kowski 5
JamizzleHavok13 5
Ken Patton 4
Corey Balint 4
CourtneyB 4
Denman 4
Yan Wang 4
David Kelly 3
Andrew Rudolph 3
Ben Lauer 3
DJ Fluck 3
Marc P. 3
Cyberguy34000 3
Barry Bonzack1604 2
Cory 2
Ecarlson 2
EnderofDragon 2
EricS-Team180 2
Jake177 2
Jdiwnab 2
Jeff_Rice 2
Joe Ross 2
Joshua May 2
Karinka13 2
Tom Bottiglieri 2
Tytus Gerrish 2
Aaron Lussier 1
Bill Gold 1
Coco The Monkey 1
Collin Fultz 1
ElfMaster 1
Eria4044 1
IMDWalrus 1
JakeGallagher 1
Jay Trzaskos 1
Katie Reynolds 1
Lisa Perez 1
MATT_kaplan108 1
Sanddrag 1
TierraDelDiablo 1


So Heidi regains the lead by the slimmest of margins...can she hold on? Find out in ten minutes or so!