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See Right Handed Nut Rounder

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PNW District (n.): The district that has the best video quality in FRC.

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Chokehold Strategy (n.): Oh man, I have no idea. Although I'll probably never need to know. Ask Karthik.

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Adding on...

Snow Day (n.): The reason the New England District can't have nice things. The Texas teams have no such record of problems with losing a day of work, for the Michigan and New England Districts, it is great because of no school, however detrimental to the robot building effort... Especially when snow falls too much on bag and tag day... :confused: :mad: :D

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Head Mentor (n): The only form of rational judgment found on most teams.

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Next Year's Game (n.): Always a water game until the first hint comes out (for the smart ones) or the game announcement (for the true believers) where a logical game is announced, and the water game is postponed until next year's game. see: Next Year's Game

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Practice Matches (n): A magical time at a regional, before the real competition starts, that many have heard of, but few have actually experienced.

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The Macy's Day Parade, aka, the Horror Show, aka, Load in (n). The 45 minute parade on Day 1 of an event where teams with no sightlines rush to try to wheel/carry all manner of dangerous, precariously balanced & protruding objects into the pits. See Safety.

Deadheading (v). The practice of catching a one-day volunteer trying to enter the volunteer eating area using their badge on days they are not volunteering.

The "Packed in the Pit" Defense (n). The most common excuse used by teams on Day 1 for not wearing safety glasses while entering the pits.

Volunteer Coordinator (n) The person at an event who is expected to solve most problems which don't involve objects that light up or plug in. The time commitment for this volunteer position starts 6 months before the event and involves too many hours of "training" calls, meetings, begging and making wild guesses for inventory.

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Judge Advisor (n.) - Cat herder. See also Cindy and Allen

Cindy and Allen (n.) - Awesome.

Judge's Assistant (n.) - The person who really runs the judge's room.

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Money (n): 1. The paper substance that is vital to any teams success 2. usually following the word get (get money) 3. The reason there are sponsors (see sponsors) 4. something we all need more of

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Brave Little Toaster Sandwich (n) Stories about hapless teams/robots where the bad news is buffered by the less bad news. Also see "Good News/Bad News."
Team Smarty Pants' robot finally passed inspection and could play their last match!
But the robot caught fire on the field.
Luckily we had that really big fire extinguisher nearby.

Zamboni(ed) (v) An especially entertaining entry to the field by an emcee or VIP. Also see Blair, Woodie, Boston Regional.

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Bag n Tag (n): We used to shut up the robots in a dark box and ship them away from home. Now we just suffocate them.

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Loop (n.) See Loop

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i see what you did there.

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and then came the 2015 Dallas Regional.....