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FRC (n.) 1. The greatest thing since sliced bread.
2. An addiction.

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Match Schedule (n.) - The only thing that kept you from winning World Championships

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Pick Me Maybe (n.) The only song by Carly Rae Jepsen team 399.

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1/8" Drill Bit (n.) 1. The label on the perpetually vacant slot in the drill bit set. 2.The bit that you use for everything. 3. You bought ten at the start of the season, but they have all mysteriously disappeared by the week before bag.

3/16" Drill Bit (n.) see 1/8" Drill Bit

5/32" Drill Bit (n.) see 1/8" Drill Bit

10-32 Tap (n.) A ceremonial tool that every freshman must break at least once as a rite of passage.

Hammer (n.) A percussive maintenance tool used to forcefully repair all mechanical problems on the robot.

3/4" Wrench (n.) see Hammer

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Safety Captain (n.) - The role given to a non-drive team member in the pit. Usually given to someone thrown under the bus, but gets to wear a badge of honor. Generally has no authority or knowledge of safety. See Safety.

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Perfect.

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Team Overdrive (n.) The role model and hero of every rookie team.

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Bill of Materials (n.) - A random list of parts, most of which are on the robot, assembled the night before or morning of inspection.

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Hard reset (n) A common device used to manipulate mechanical machinery to revert to the original designed purpose, often found in the form of a large wrench or screwdriver.

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Qualification pairings(n): A system of "random" selections that determine what rollerskates a team plays qualification matches with. Also The reason quality teams have a lower ranking at a regional.
Rollerskate (n): A competition robot that consists of a drivetrain and at most 1 mechanism that works 15% of the time. Mostly done by rookie teams. Also see Defense
Defense(n/v): A stategy used by robots that contribute nothing to the actual game being played. Rendered useless in 2015
Lone Star Regional (n): Who are The Robonauts taking to Worlds?
Dallas Regional (n): Who are The Robowranglers taking to Worlds?
Silicon Valley Regional (n): Who are The Cheesy Poofs taking to Worlds?
Awards (n): A series of achievements given at each event that showcase overall aesthetic appeal of robots and the marketing of teams with under-performing robots.
Drivers meeting (n): A collection of teenagers who lead others to believe that they may not even know which FRC game is being played as they know so few rules the first day of a competition.
The Blue Alliance (n): A website containing much of the resources necessary for scouting, watching, and record keeping. Most often visited more than traditional social media from January-April.
Declining (v): The reason various teams develop the reputation of being a jerk.
LEDs(n): Often times the reason your team is noticed by other teams.
Buttons (n): Items produced by underclassmen team members with little or developing technical skills. They are then traded with underclassmen members from other teams.
Power Couple (n): Two established and powerful teams from the same geographic area that often team up and win events together. Sometimes includes traveling as one. Ex: 1114 and 2056, 624 and 1477, 254 and 971/1678, 118 and 148, etc.
Cleaning the shop (v): hazing

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Inspection - Activity that occurs at the latest time possible on Thursday. Sometimes leads to cutting the robot in half to either cut weight or size.

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Looks like someone from the FRC subreddit assembled all the definitions in alphabetical order here.

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OP Robotics (n.) 1. A team from Canada that has never lost a regional and capable of holding its own against Simbotics.

2. The bane of world champions at IRI.

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Truck Town Funk adj. - A form of funky behavior that may be often confused for the funk of another team with a slightly lower number. This funk has been known to have a bit of a Turkey Leg Aroma in the fall. ::ouch::

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Nebraska (n.) A mysterious and uncharted land.

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That would be me, it's mostly up to date.

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Defense (n): Something people complain there is too much of until there is a game without it.

Offense (n): Something people always want more of, until a game is played with only it.

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I was actually going to make my own version of this for the FIRST parody competition for my team but then i read this and was like, O, I'll think of something else.

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Robot (n.) Something that FRC teams may or may not build. See RC car.

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Wait, I can't find Safety in the book.

Arms race (n.): the era from 1947 to 2015 in which FRC was in a state of tension as teams began to stockpile nuclear weapons, in fear that the other alliance may declare a "can war" on them. See 1678.

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How about:

Safety (n):

1. Conditions and/or procedures which reduce the likelihood of injuring personnel or damaging equipment.
2. An award at FRC events which some teams think will go to teams who put up posters with lots of yellow and orange, have mascots wearing hard hats and orange vests, and yell Robot! a lot. Sometimes the judges think so, too.
3. A means of scoring defensive points in the mythical upcoming American football-based game.
4. A robot assigned a defensive role in the aforementioned game.

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I apologize for any excess snark below.

RI3D (n): Robot In 3 Days. An annual reminder that we are all just slackers. See cheat sheet.

Spirit award (n): When FIRST congratulates the team who most enthusiastically blocks everyone’s view in the stands. See participation ribbon.

Kit of parts drivetrain (n): Antithesis to mecanum; A simple, sensible drivetrain configuration that you can actually win with.

LabVIEW (n): That language you always thought was too geeky for you until you realized how great it looked without those braces and big ugly classes.

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Free time (n.) _______________________ Read as: "Undefined"

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RoboRIO (n.) A device used to store metal shavings from elsewhere on the robot.

Drive Practice (n.) A time set aside for the drive team to watch the programmers debug code.

Tether (n.) An Ethernet cable noted for its ability to tangle itself when left unsupervised.

Zip tie (n.) The standard fastener used on FRC robots.

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But then you realized it compiled way to slowly and could easily overload the CPU...

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12V solenoid (n.): An expensive paperweight because the PCM is always set for 24V.

24V solenoid (n.): An expensive paperweight because the PCM is always set for 12V.

Robot Inspector (n.): A nice man who takes care of Curious George.

Serpentine Draft (n.): A systematic procedure used to encourage teams to be the 24th best team at the event.

SmartDashbord (n.): A convenient place to put a lot of information that the drivers will never look at.

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Safety Adviser (n.) Person in a green polo shirt whose job often appears to be to force teams to use the LEAST safe way of doing any given work in the pits.

Pit Admin (n.) That voice in your head telling you to report to queuing, you are in the next match.

Queuing Team (n., plural) Cat herders, traffic directors, and "that's the exit gate" group.

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Anodizing Black (v.) A process which instantly gives a product superior performance.

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We have 4 OP robotics "definitions" and counting

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Acrylic (n.): A cheaper "replacement" for lexan. Can be identified by a lack of a blue sheen, or more commonly by it's tendency to crack/shatter when actually used on the robot, especially after last minute pit repairs using materials given by neighboring pit. See lexan.

Lexan (n.): A very strong, clear material. Despite it's high costs, it is claimed to be in many pits at competitions; if needed a neighboring pit will have a scrap of "such" for you to use. See acrylic.

Sick day (n.): A day during build season when one takes off due to illness. On this day, any major project that they had been working on for at least a week will be tested by somebody, often a mentor, who has no idea how you intended it to be used. May result in cracked welds, ruined precision machined surfaces/bores, and/or lost magic smoke.


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The first one actually happened to me in 2010, due to a dead (shattered) ball intake, we needed to cover a hole to prevent the 3" ball intrusion rule from applying. That fix with what was supposedly "lexan" lasted, um, one match before getting cracked clean in half.

The last one also is a true story, my freshman year (2008) while I had the flu a mentor incorrectly connected my IR interface board to the KOP IR receiver board (for hybrid period) and fried the receiver, after stocks of said board were no longer available! No hybrid for us that year. :(

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Snow Day (n.): The reason the New England District can't have nice things.

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and for some reason mistakenly believes their badge earns them access to the field.

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Media Team (n): 1) The reason the slogan "More than Robots" was invented; 2) Those who blind with flashes; 3) Land of punishment for bad builders (IE. If you don't stop stripping those screws, I'm going to put you on the Media Team.)

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Human Player (n.): The most important/useless member of the drive team.

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Safety - (verb) 1. To shout ROBOT! ROBOT! ROBOT! when transporting a carted robot through the pits regardless of the noise or number of pedestrians around.
Did he really have to safety in my ear? I'm going to go deaf.
2. To create litter by plastering homemade signs on every surface that fits an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.
They really safety'd all over this place. I doubt we'll be able to clean up these Wear your glasses signs in less than a day.
3. To remind people to wear Personal Protective Equipment correctly.
I had to safety those freshmen when I saw their forehead protectors.

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Battery (n): An energy storing device that features black and red wire handles.

Butterfly Drive (n): A clever way of combining the scrub of treads with the sloppiness of omniwheels.

Masking Tape (n): The preferred method of displaying a rookie team's number on its bumpers.

Master of Ceremonies (n): An individual whose prime objective is to determine different ways to create feedback using a wireless microphone.

Red Dots (n): A method of ensuring a rookie will never again post on www.chiefdelphi.com

Red 2 (n): The drive station that never connects properly at IRI.

Seventh Alliance Captain (n): The individual who announces the numbers of teams who (1)have already been selected, (2)are not at the current event, or (3)do not actually exist. Not necessarily in that order.

Stand Scouting (v): The action of taking copious notes about the bottom half of an event's teams before covering the papers with a spilled beverage, pizza sauce, and/or chocolate.

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Coopertition (n.) A concept that you should work with the opposing alliance to score extra points. Generally is thrown out the window when elimination rounds begin.

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Bayou Regional (n): The regional in which a random Texas team will lead penitent Louisiana or Mississippi teams to World Championship.

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LabVIEW (n.): A programming environment designed to give rookie programmers the illusion of an easy method to program the robot. In reality is highly illogical. See Java

Java (n.): The programming environment that seems daunting at first, and takes 3 years to learn to full potential. See Seniors

C++ (n.): An older, less logical, more confusing relative of Java.

UNH District Event (n.): 1. Home to elimination ronds that never goes off smoothly. 2. In 2015 a human players button falls off getting lodged inside a stack in Finals 2, plus the lights go out halfway through Finals 1. 3. In 2014 was home to the most replays due to one failure (exit gate lexan entering the field).

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Utah Regional (n.) A regional that some random out-of-state team decides to attend and wins.

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Water Game (n.) next year's FRC game

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Actually, this year it was an Arkansas team that picked two Louisiana teams.

Was just waiting for someone to go there...

Battle Bots (n.) What everyone first thinks their joining when getting into FRC for the first time.

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The proper term is Octocanum.
Butterfly is the one with onmi wheels.

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Mechanical (n.): A wrench-swinging monkey who will never be as cool as a programmer.
"Can't those mechanicals work any faster? I wanna test the code already!"

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Michigan (n.) 1. Land of a thousand districts. 2. Home of a thousand rookie teams.

Michigan State Championship (n.) 1.From 2009-2014, the highest concentration of competitive robots outside of IRI. 2. In 2015, a brief detour on the way to the World Championship.

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See Mechanical Monkeys

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1” Open End Wrench (n) - Tool used by Drive team, (see Mechanical) to disassemble (see Magic Smoke) Classmate Driver Station during field set up. Sometimes preceded by, “Show us how you shake your thing” and immediately followed by “It must be a programming issue?”

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Adjustable Wrench (n) - Tool used by students to make hexagonal or square shapes into circles.

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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.....

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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

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Wildcards.... (See The District System)

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:yikes:

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And I counter/counter:

Scouting Data Entry (n.)- The process in which random values are entered in to a database to disguise homework, eating, gabbing and napping while traveling on someone else's nickel.

Data Analysis (n.) - the process of applying mystical values and incantations to randomly entered values to divine an ethereal ranking of potential mates.

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RNGesus gets many prayers Friday night.

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And forgive us our respectful declines as we forgive our respectful decliners.

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Crazy Ivan (n): When your robot, operating in autonomous, suddenly deviates radically from its programmed course for no apparent reason - often crashing into something (I'm sure it's not the code!). See also "Hunt for Red October".

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safety glasses (n.) eye protection that fogs up constantly
water (n.) something necessary to stay hydrated at competitions and prevent medical emergencies which no one drinks
SWAG drive (n.) Slide With A Grip (center wheel not omni) (term created during the 2015 season by 303)
"working" (adj.) (during competitions) the component was just put together and may or may not function properly
honeyscouting (v.) a method of pit scouting used by some teams that utilizes pretty girls to distract a strategy team or member, usually male, from the fact that the advertized robot doesn't actually work.
driver practice (n.) a chance for the drive team to mess up the robot before competitions. See melting pneumatics
curie division (n.) a division in worlds from which no team has ever won completely. See Curie's Curse
scouting (v.) something that either saves your team during alliance or puts the nail in the coffin. See pick list
meCANTum (n.) insult to mecanum wheels that was funny until 2015. See Recycle Rush

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2014 begs to differ...

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CIM: Completely Indestructible Motor - Used in place of engineering to make sure that appendage lifts what it needs to and doesn't need a brake/clutch.

Vex Pro: Anodized, Teflon coated, or plastic

Andy Mark: Silver

"OP" Robotics: A very appropriate name. See OP

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China (n): 1. A new and exciting frontier for the FIRST Robotics Competition. 2. Why suppliers don't have any useful stock from the day after kickoff until two days after BagnTag Day.

Coopertate (v): What FRC teams do in every aspect of their lives except for on the competition field.

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FABRICATED ITEMS (n): An eclectic combination of ingredients commonly used to make Cheese Cake

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Magic Smoke (noun) - A stored amount of matter in all electrical devices which provides fuel for mad hamsters responsible for providing the correct output. Once the Magic Smoke is released (accidentally or intentionally) the mad hamsters will die, and the electrical device ceases to work.

Magic Noise (noun) - A vibration resistant glue contained in a finite amount of all mechanical devices. Once the mechanical device releases too much of its magic noise it often fails.

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Programmer- A biologically engineered person who converts caffeine into strange assortments of 1's and 0's

CSA- WHERES THE ORANGE HAT PERSON!

Code- The one thing that is always blamed when something goes wrong

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Infinite Loop (n): see Infinite Loop

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These were prompted by a highlighted quote by Ike from a couple of years back:

minion (n): a nominally autonomous entity who obeys your commands through emotional loyalty, deep conditioning, or stupidity. Not to be trusted with any tasking that involves actual thinking.

henchman (n): an autonomous entity who obeys your every command out of enlightened self interest. Not to be entrusted with enough information to lead a hostile takeover.

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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"