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At the Rebound Rumble I had the privilege of inspecting FRC Team 3940's robot. This is Andy Baker's team.
They were over weight @ 122 pounds.
When I told Andy the weight he said "Okay, what was it really" He didn't believe me.
They had steal plates for ballast so it wasn't hard to loose weight.

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Wasn't that also the year someone found purple air tanks on their robot? :p :p

Actually, at L.A. this year, it was the lockup form that the LRI's team was missing. I'm not saying where it was located to protect the (mostly) innocent...

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I hope this years game wont be a joke.

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I did this in Walmart once. Needless to say the crowd of people I wound up pushing my way through with a shopping cart were not very amused.

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Last year after a regional a bunch of teams went for dinner at the same restaurant. There was a crowd of people around the lobby waiting to be seated. Two employees were trying to get through, carrying a table, saying "excuse me" with little success. We told one, "say 'robot!' instead". She looked confused, but she looked even more confused when she tried it, and it actually worked!

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What does Kanye West call Team 254?

The Yeezy Poofs.

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Ask PA for Pneumatic Fluid. :D

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[cracks knuckles]

The first has been posted elsewhere, but not here:

Two robots walk into a bar. The third was built for Stronghold and damages the defense in about 10 seconds.

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When is a flashlight not a flashlight?
When it's a baguette or a leg of mutton.

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When is a bumper-to-bumper collision a strategy aimed at the destruction or inhibition of a robot via attachment, damage, tipping, or entanglements?
Reply Hazy; try again later.

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Where are the tower flags?
Beats me.

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RoboRIO brownout: A design flaw masquerading as a feature which was successfully obscured for two years through a combination of non-existent defense and historically brutal field elements called defenses.

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Boulder consistency. (the latest game piece in a long-running gag)

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FIRST Stronghold: A game in which your enemy is not the opposing alliance so much as the field itself (ref. The Hunger Games).

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[another shameless theft]

Natasha: How do you win FRC regional?
Boris: I use stragedy.
Natasha: You mean Strategy, dahlink.
Boris: No, what happen to Moose and Squirrel, 's tragedy.

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When do you know you're drinking the FIRST kool-aid?
When you send one of your best controls people to help a rookie team with a non-functional robot and they seed better than you. Then the next year you get a chance to mentor two rookie teams, and entheusiastically embrace both opportunities. [true 3946 story]

Edit: OBTW, this year we were the top ranked team at Bayou not selected for an alliance (#18). Both of the teams we mentored were very close behind us and "on the spot". On several levels, even a prouder moment than when we went to CMP.

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Me to someone--actually, multiple people at various points, IIRC:

That's TWO games those solenoids have ruined.

[backstory: the solenoids in the tower flags were apparently originally used for the hot goal reflective tape in Aerial Assist, where they weren't exactly up to the job. So rather than using servos... And the flags were the ref height reference for the camera poles.]


And another one: "We have standards." Or: "We have a standard." Depended on how many standards were in the robot barf box at that time.

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Our intake

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Man, we really have a Low Bar for jokes this year.