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Mechanical (N.) People who blame programming for things they broke

Programming (N.) The universal scapegoat

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I second this

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It's a lie!

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Inspector Training (n)
1: A service provided by the first team inspected at a regional.
2: Punishment for daring to be the first team inspected at a regional.
3: Situation easily remedied by finding Al

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Electrical (n.) Programming's scapegoat. Often also programming.

Scapegoat (n.) Team member or group that is blamed for whatever failed this time, regardless of 1) presence anywhere near failure, 2) actual culpability. Sometimes referred to as escapegoat if everybody else is too busy getting out of there.

"I didn't do it!" (phrase) Statement shouted by everybody NOT involved in breaking something this time, and sometimes by whoever did it.

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Test Ban Treaty (n.): A negotiated end to the can war after the consumption of large quantities of cheesecake, that saved the lives of many freshmen. See IRI Rules

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Vortex (n.): A large circle of desks assembled on day one of build season to house the CAD and code teams. Synonymous with "black hole", both in inward attractive force and in relativistic time dilation; "Thou who enter the vortex shall not emerge from its depths until the temporal substance which fuels it has evaporated after 6-9 weeks."

Mating (v.): A term used to describe a relationship I will add between the frontal flat planar surface of my palm with your curved facial face when you make this joke for the hundredth time while I'm stuck in the vortex with you. See Vortex.

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Bumper (n.) - A component (sometimes) required on a robot to pass inspection; covered with special fabric and team numbers to a specification that many teams have a hard time following.

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Scouting Meeting (n.): gathering of team mates with the purpose to trash talk other teams with no regard to actual data. If a team is considered a "powerhouse", these discussions take place out of the venue behind closed doors or over Google hangouts.

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Related:

Scouting Data entry (n.):
1) something still done by technologically backwards teams
2)literally social hour
3)Accidentally falling asleep while your minions really nice friends enter the data for you

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We all know the "powerhouse" teams find powerhouse restaurants to discuss strategy.

Or it's still done by teams that value data and use paper scouting systems because other methods are either unreliable or costly

I'll counter with my own:
Scouting Data Entry (n.)- The process by which accurate scouting data is inputted into a database, never to be seen again

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I'll see you and raise you:

Data analysis (n.): Carefully crafted conclusions drawn from carelessly collected data.

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The reality of this statement though... So true.

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District Points System (n.) 1. The system by which teams are picked from a hat and invited to district championship 2. The reason we should really design to win awards not matches

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The District System (n.)- A universally better system for qualifying teams for the championship event that will never reach the states that need it most
Wildcards (n.) - A conspiracy to get more Canadian and Californian teams to qualify for Championships each year