CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #378

[Billfred]

Time to stomp out a new path!

The scores after the last round (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1079813&postcount=27):

Joe G. 51
Taylor 40
EricH 39
GaryVoshol 39
JaneYoung 39
S.P.A.M.er 17 31
Katie_UPS 29
rsisk 29
kstl99 25
Bill_B 23
EricS-Team180 23
DonRotolo 22
Ninja_Bait 21
Al Skierkiewicz 19
Wayne Doenges 19
rachelholladay 18
George1902 17
dodar 17
Molten 17
Karibou 16
jgw 16
HedgeHogGal99 13
Rangel(kf7fdb) 11
DRAKE2751 8
Aerosound 8
rtfgnow 6
PAR_WIG1350 6
Frenchie461 6
Andy Baker 5
Chris is me 4
Travis Hoffman 4
Colin P 4
LemmingBot 3
Cynette 2
dlavery 2
akoscielski3 2
stundt1 2
Q. Sheets 2
Alex Cormier 1
msimon785 1
SparxProgrammer 1
SuperNerd256 1
plnyyanks 1
GCentola 1
Barry Bonzack 1
kramarczyk 1
robokiller 1
nitneylion452 1

And the picture:

http://chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/13614

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

[EricH]

Team 378 is better than 71, 1114, or any other legendary team; they actually figured out the 2009 game back in 2002.

They are also worse than said legends, as they put their scoring device on backwards. No wonder other teams didn't like playing with them.

[rsisk]

The team took Woodie's phrase seriously: "The robot is just the campfire we all sit around"

Unfortunately no one brought marshmallows.

[rachelholladay]

You can attach a trailer to a robot, but you can't make him pull it.

[Ninja_Bait]

9 years ago: "They expect it to overcome the effects of static friction at any moment now..."
Today: "Still waiting..."

[GaryVoshol]

The next test of pulling strength is the guy in the blue shirt.

I resemble that remark. Hey, I'm in shape; "round" is a shape, right?

[Taylor]

Raging Rodney: "I will pull it. I will pull it. I think I can. I think I can. I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.


I am JVN."

[Karibou]

This entire picture takes the idea of "blue alliance" a little too far. Even the bleachers scream alliance spirit!

[Frenchie461]

This is what happens when a 2009 robot goes 88 miles per hour.

[Jim Wilks]

I'm going to take my ball and just sit here until you guys show me a robot that can do something useful!

[Molten]

The most impressive part? They managed to time travel with cardboard wheels while not catching them on fire.

[J.Warsoff]

Guys, I figured out why it can't pull the cart.......we forgot to put wheels on the trailer.

[JaneYoung]

After their robot was doused by fire extinguishers for the 5th time, the coach decided that yelling "FIRE!" was not the wisest word choice to use in a robot competition.

[HedgeHogGal99]

When a team says to keep the robot as simple as you can I'm pretty sure they didn't mean use cardboard....

[S.P.A.M.er 17]

I have long since given up on these hints, and come to the conclusion that they are designed to befuddle us all and amuse Dave.

Every year, everyone reads too much into the hints given by Dave.

Who said Dave's hints never got us anywhere. Seven years later, 378-the only team in human history to ever successfully decrypt one of Lavery's hints-had the last laugh when all of the non-believers were staring slack jawed at the screen, trying to find their happy place where all robots had traction.

[Wayne Doenges]

For the game Lunacy, the students downloaded the metric version of the trailer drawings. However they forgot to convert 'mm' to 'inch.
Boy were the surprised and relieved when they went to their first regional.

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Look guys, I can back up my model train at home and couple to a whole train full of cars and it has no software at all. We better get this working soon, I know those Beatty guys have something big up their sleeve and it won't be pretty. Look at all the PVC pipe they are going to have to work with!

[Q. Sheets]

We took a 19th century robot and stuck a Hemi in it. Look what it can do!

[DonRotolo]

Vlad the Impaler's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_the_Impaler) new robot.

[Joe G.]

378 decision to use their 2002 robot for Lunacy, and advertise as "G14 proof," met with mixed success.

[Cody Burd]

were we going camping with the new trailer

[Katie_UPS]

The man in the middle had missed the memo to wear a blue shirt, and sat down in shame.

[Billfred]

It's still Sunday!

First place goes to:

The team took Woodie's phrase seriously: "The robot is just the campfire we all sit around"

Unfortunately no one brought marshmallows.

Second place goes to:

Raging Rodney: "I will pull it. I will pull it. I think I can. I think I can. I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.


I am JVN."

Honorable mentions go to:

1) Ninja_Bait
2) Katie_UPS
3) Karibou
4) Frenchie461
5) DonRotolo
6) S.P.A.M.er 17
7) jgw
8) JaneYoung
9) Wayne Doenges

And the burn award goes to:

Team 378 is better than 71, 1114, or any other legendary team; they actually figured out the 2009 game back in 2002.

They are also worse than said legends, as they put their scoring device on backwards. No wonder other teams didn't like playing with them.

Which means the scores are:

Joe G. 52
Taylor 45
EricH 42
JaneYoung 41
GaryVoshol 40
rsisk 39
S.P.A.M.er 17 33
Katie_UPS 31
kstl99 25
DonRotolo 24
Bill_B 23
EricS-Team180 23
Ninja_Bait 23
Wayne Doenges 21
Al Skierkiewicz 20
rachelholladay 19
Karibou 18
jgw 18
Molten 18
George1902 17
dodar 17
HedgeHogGal99 14
Rangel(kf7fdb) 11
Aerosound 9
DRAKE2751 8
Frenchie461 8
rtfgnow 6
PAR_WIG1350 6
Andy Baker 5
Chris is me 4
Travis Hoffman 4
Colin P 4
LemmingBot 3
Q. Sheets 3
Cynette 2
dlavery 2
akoscielski3 2
stundt1 2
Alex Cormier 1
msimon785 1
SparxProgrammer 1
SuperNerd256 1
plnyyanks 1
GCentola 1
Barry Bonzack 1
kramarczyk 1
robokiller 1
nitneylion452 1
Cody Burd 1

Onward!