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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.