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as a programming/controls mentor, I have yet to see a "finished" bot......I have heard of other teams actually having one....but as for me I've never seen this mythical beast

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Numbers don't lie! - Phrase usually uttered by the same people who entered incorrect numbers

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Haha. So true. We had some people this year say in the data that a team pulled 8 bins of the step in autonomous... it was so odd ;)

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"Yes, but why would I write 8 if I didn't mean it. I have no reason to lie."

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"Oh that wasn't me I traded my form with someone else for that match"

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My team calls it "Chick Scouting" :)

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I call it a working strategy :yikes:

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Water Game (n.) - An event exhibiting sheer improbability by impracticality (like flying cars).
Team Queuing (n.) - Those folks who keep dropping screws and zip ties off of your cart.
Programming Mentor (n.) - A masochist whose particular form of self-inflicted torture involves watching inexperienced programmers write code and being unable to do it over by him- or herself.

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Unless they scout keeps coming back to the pit to talk to said pretty girl, and seeing more and more of the robot and it's problems. Or if the scouts are aware of the concept, and therefore look at the robot even more critically than they would otherwise.

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Im assuming thats why you were head scout?

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Chuck Norris (n): The name of the worst robot at any given event

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Pool noodles (n) the only way your team can outscore an opposing alliance with 3 more robots than yours (33-4)

West coast drivetrain (n) what freshman tell pit scouters that your drivetrain is just because you are a west coast team and they dont know what a west coast drive is

Freshman (n) see also: manual labor subteam. See also monwell laboro

Totes (n) the only way to take your tools to champs if you're not driving a truck.

1114/900's harpoons the most effective way of lowering your volunteer team out of fear.

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Class C Defenses: They make better doors than windows. Although their functionality as doors are largely ignored.

High Goal: A task that is ridiculously easy in every season and at every event except for where your team currently is.

Judge: The person who gets blamed when it's really the referee's fault

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Goal Chains: Sadistic, twisted little devils intended to help shots stay in the goal, but consistently do the opposite year after year.

(no but seriously, why does the GDC keep thinking these things help teams?)

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Low Bar Curtains: Break away for awesome reveal videos

Boulders: The real 10th defense. Draws fouls left and right for running over them.