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Billfred 30-06-2015 00:40
CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #573
 
Welcome to the twelfth straight year of the Chief Delphi Unofficial Caption Contest!

After the season-ending contest last week, here are the scores:

Code:
You        0
Instead, I give you the rules. (Other rules have been created, but these are the ones that see use.)

Quote:
Originally Posted by The Rules (enacted Caption Contest #1)
The rules:
-I am never ever gonna be eligible, unless I change the rule just before handing over control of the game to someone else.
-If it's your image I pick, you're not eligible.
-If you suggest an image and I pick it, you're not eligible.
-Entries will be scored by me on originality, or in the absence of that, dry humor.
-First place gets ten points, second gets five, honorable mentions will be awarded at my whims.
Traditionally, roughly half of the entries receive a two-point honorable mention, and one particularly good zinger received the burn award, good for three points. This year, I'm making a change: twos for (almost) everybody. Why? There are relatively few truly bad entries in recent years, and weeding out honorable mentions from singles has long been the biggest part of time spent working on the contest. What's more, giving everyone twos would not have affected the top three in the past four years. So we're going to give it a go: ten, five, three, or two. Singles will be reserved for blatant copycat entries or the truly incomprehensible.

There have been some updates to the rules over the years:

Quote:
Originally Posted by The Heidi Foster Rule (enacted Caption Contest #20)
Preventing anyone from entering the caption contest by means of any feat of engineering is prohibited. This rule shall not apply if both the victim and Billfred are laughing after the act has been committed.
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Billfred Is Working Way Too Much Rule (enacted Caption Contest #24)
If, for whatever reason, Billfred is working on a job on a day he has to post or judge a caption contest, he reserves the right to fudge the posting or judging by one day in either direction.
("Working" gets a rather liberal interpretation, mind you.)

Quote:
Originally Posted by The OTHER Heidi Foster Rule (enacted Caption Contest #29)
No person may kidnap, threaten, or otherwise cause harm or mental distress to Billfred in order to influence the outcome of a caption contest.
Quote:
Originally Posted by The -infinity Rule (enacted Caption Contest #42)
At certain times, should Billfred be pwned by a contestant, he may, at his sole discretion, assign a score of -infinity to that contestant. Points still accumulate as normal, but the -infinity score will remain posted until Billfred either lets off or forgets to add the -infinity score again.
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Koko Ed Rule (enacted Caption Contest #46, but a de facto rule for long before)
Anyone except Billfred can enter the caption contest, even if it's their picture.
Since then, the only thing that's changed is the deadline: Sunday at midnight Eastern, though entries posted afterward will count if they're posted before I open the thread to score it.

Here's this week's picture:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/36842

Go!

EricH 30-06-2015 01:12
Re: CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #573
 
A few minutes later, in another pit:

"We need to cut some aluminum exactly ->this<- long."

GeeTwo 30-06-2015 01:30
Re: CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #573
 
"And when you get your fingers and thumb in a triangle, turn left, and back up a step so it looks like it's on the peg."

Taylor 30-06-2015 09:13
Re: CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #573
 
I thought the game was called Logomotion. These logos don't appear to be moving at all.

dodar 30-06-2015 11:02
Re: CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #573
 
I swear I left a triangle right here...darn you 217!!!

Ichlieberoboter 30-06-2015 11:30
Re: CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #573
 
So you're telling me that the ones with three sides are the triangles?! The ones that look like this??? Oh wow. In that case, I'm going to have to go fix some old match scores...

Vale 30-06-2015 14:09
Re: CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #573
 
"So you take the tube, and you hang it. Not so hard, right?"

efoote868 30-06-2015 14:34
Re: CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #573
 
Most of the time engineering problems have open ended solutions. But that... That right there is the right answer. Other acceptable answers would have been a combination of 25, 111, 254, 987, 1114, 2056...

GaryVoshol 30-06-2015 16:40
Re: CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #573
 
Get that volunteer off the field, and maybe 217 would have been able to put up the last triangle to complete the logo.

cgmv123 30-06-2015 20:22
Re: CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #573
 
Covering up the lack of a perfect score with plausible deniability. You can't see if they scored, but you can't see if they didn't score either!

Wayne Doenges 01-07-2015 11:33
Re: CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #573
 
Guy in fore ground: I've got to get a picture of the is near perfect Logo hang. OH LOOK, a quarter.

M1KRONAUT 01-07-2015 13:53
Re: CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #573
 
We later discovered a function in 217's code called "InduceOCD," which made the robot stall if there was only one tube left to hang. The programmer who wrote this bit of code had to write an apology letter to all three teams in the alliance; and especially to his own team, who had to give their Gracious Professionalism award back. :D

DohertyBilly 01-07-2015 16:50
Re: CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #573
 
Missing tube? *stands between camera and empty peg*
I don't know what you're talking about...

Nick Lawrence 02-07-2015 15:08
Re: CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #573
 
Look ma, *some* Ubertubes!

-Nick

Kevin Leonard 02-07-2015 15:25
Re: CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #573
 
"Ha! Let's see them do THAT in Canada!"

Jacob Bendicksen 02-07-2015 23:46
Re: CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #573
 
If you read the scoring objects from left to right, you can see the lyrics to the next FIRST anthem.

rsisk 04-07-2015 10:15
Re: CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #573
 
In between each match, Daryl would show off the dance moves he learned at Engineering College.

Note: this event had the fastest match cycle time of the season

orangemoore 04-07-2015 10:20
Re: CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #573
 
The blue jean alliance was unable to prevent the red alliance from scoring a lot. Although no one can confirm if they stopped them from placing the last tube behind their robot.

Jacob Bendicksen 04-07-2015 19:42
Re: CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #573
 
*not a submission*
Can someone elaborate on the impetus behind the various rules? I feel like there's some pretty great back story on some of them.

Jim Wilks 05-07-2015 00:12
Re: CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #573
 
Here we see a demonstration of some of the many valuable FIRST skills developed by volunteers:

You put your right hand in,
You put your right hand out,
You put your right hand in,
And you shake it all about,

You do the hokey pokey
and you turn yourself around
That what it's all about.

EricH 05-07-2015 00:50
Re: CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #573
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jacob Bendicksen (Post 1488999)
*not a submission*
Can someone elaborate on the impetus behind the various rules? I feel like there's some pretty great back story on some of them.
[Entire post not an entry]
Oooh boy. I think I can, but some of them you just have to look up the contest.

Starting with: The BIWWTM Rule, and its counterpart, The OTHER BIWWTM Rule (never invoked). These give Billfred flexibility in judging timeline, because, well work happens. The OTHER in this case allows Billfred the flexibility to give over control of the contest to some other player temporarily.

-infinity is if somebody REALLY gets Billfred hard, he retaliates. (I should probably pipe down here, because I think I might have one coming my way...).

The Koko Ed Rule was enacted to repeal Rule 2 and Rule 3, after Ed entered one with him in it.

The OTHER Heidi Foster Rule was enacted as a precaution. Billfred was a little late with the judging of a contest around the time of IRI, and somebody made some snide remark about kidnapping him. Somebody else (initials: HF) made some corny remark about only talking about such a plan... So the rule went into place.

I'm not sure about the Heidi Foster Rule.

Incidentally, the burn award was originally a docking of points, awarded to none other than Heidi Foster (for calling Dave Lavery an "unskilled fool with exotic tools", tools in question being a squirt gun).

Billfred 05-07-2015 19:30
Re: CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #573
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by EricH (Post 1489012)
[Entire post not an entry]
Oooh boy. I think I can, but some of them you just have to look up the contest.

Starting with: The BIWWTM Rule, and its counterpart, The OTHER BIWWTM Rule (never invoked). These give Billfred flexibility in judging timeline, because, well work happens. The OTHER in this case allows Billfred the flexibility to give over control of the contest to some other player temporarily.

-infinity is if somebody REALLY gets Billfred hard, he retaliates. (I should probably pipe down here, because I think I might have one coming my way...).

The Koko Ed Rule was enacted to repeal Rule 2 and Rule 3, after Ed entered one with him in it.

The OTHER Heidi Foster Rule was enacted as a precaution. Billfred was a little late with the judging of a contest around the time of IRI, and somebody made some snide remark about kidnapping him. Somebody else (initials: HF) made some corny remark about only talking about such a plan... So the rule went into place.

I'm not sure about the Heidi Foster Rule.

Incidentally, the burn award was originally a docking of points, awarded to none other than Heidi Foster (for calling Dave Lavery an "unskilled fool with exotic tools", tools in question being a squirt gun).
That was originally a joke--Heidi Foster, longtime mentor for 116, was one of the early big entrants in the contest. Her arch rival Gary Dillard, then of S.P.A.M. before moving onto a few other teams in Florida and Alabama, got within one win of taking the lead if she didn't enter. So I was just being nice. Of course, by contest 28...

(You'll note that all these rules came into effect in the first year of the contest. I hadn't even set my mind on resetting points, let alone year 12!)

DonRotolo 06-07-2015 18:25
Re: CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #573
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Billfred (Post 1488484)
("Working" gets a rather liberal interpretation, mind you.)
..as does the interpretation of "Sunday" :rolleyes: . But hey, I know I could not do it better, so I am not complaining.

Anyway, my entry for s12e1:
Josh puts several on the drying rack, hoping they'll shrink in an attempt to get one just "this big".

Billfred 06-07-2015 23:43
Re: CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #573
 
And here it is, not even midnight yet! (Take that, Don! :P )

First place goes to:

Quote:
Originally Posted by cgmv123
Covering up the lack of a perfect score with plausible deniability. You can't see if they scored, but you can't see if they didn't score either!
Second place goes to:

Quote:
Originally Posted by Taylor
I thought the game was called Logomotion. These logos don't appear to be moving at all.
And the burn award goes to:

Quote:
Originally Posted by M1KRONAUT
We later discovered a function in 217's code called "InduceOCD," which made the robot stall if there was only one tube left to hang. The programmer who wrote this bit of code had to write an apology letter to all three teams in the alliance; and especially to his own team, who had to give their Gracious Professionalism award back. :D
Which means the scores are:

Code:
cgmv123        10
Taylor        5
M1KRONAUT        3
EricH        2
GeeTwo        2
dodar        2
Ichlieberoboter        2
Vale        2
efoote868        2
GaryVoshol        2
Wayne Doenges        2
Nick Lawrence        2
Kevin Leonard        2
Jacob Bendicksen        2
rsisk        2
orangemoore        2
Jim Wilks        2
DohertyBilly        1
Onward!


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