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We now take you to a preview of the new FIRST Place attraction, FIRST: The Ride...

Announcer: If you look in front of you, we are now passing by the wax figure gallery. Here you can see each Woodie Flowers Award winner, along with Dean Kamen and Woodie Flowers himself.

Passing into the next room...shaking begins...

Announcer: Hold on to your seats! Its an earthquake! The robots will save us!

Dave: Oh look, here come the Vex bots that JVN designed for this part of the attraction. Do they look a bit small to you?

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Dave: “Are you thinking what I’m thinking?”
Man to Dave’s left: “Yes, I think placing all the robots in the arena at the same time was a bad idea.”
Dave: “No, I’m thinking I could have saved 15% on my car insurance by switching to GEICO (TM) . I wonder if I could insure my other car.”

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Dave: I can send a signal to my other cars and they respond, but my robot doesn't. Why did we trust John and his coworkers with this job? Why, why, why?

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(in the best gravelly, grouchy, grumpy old man voice - to the man next to him)
"... and back in the day, we didn't have fun playing with robots - all we did was have fun building model rockets. You whippersnappers have it way too easy! We didn't have none of those "remote controllers" for our model rockets, neither. We had to use cardboard tubes and firecrackers for propulsion. And when the parachutes burned up, we chased em for miles! And if we got tired or lost in the process, we just kept looking and looking, for days even. 'Cause that was all we could do, and we liked it! You young kids don't know how good you have it!
(in the second best gravely, grouchy old man voice - back to Dave)
And we had to walk to school. It was uphill - both ways! And we didn't wear sun glasses inside a building to block the glare - we just shielded our eyes with our hand, or squinted really hard . And we liked it! When we were done, and our head hurt from staring, we just kept it to ourselves ..."

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1) If you look hard into the glass, you can actually see the Ghost of Championships Past.


2) (thought bubble): I wonder if I can pull the "Would-you-like-to-see-the-animation-early" trick again at next year's kickoff...

(answer: Unfortunately, yes.)

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Dave: "Pstttttt. Hey Pete. Ten bucks says the Schmales kid picks his nose."
Pete: "Looks like you beat him to it, Dave."

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Dave: Okay so remind me why their are no robots at this competition?
The depressed kids next to him: Because you told them they had to play the game on Mars.

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Dave: These Tetras are devious, But not devious enough.... maybe if someone got hit in the head with a poofball the game would be more interesting!

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Will this be the last picture of Team 116? Find out next week!!

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Here we see Dave Lavery giving last minute instructions to his team using his thumb phone. Let's listen in: "What do you mean you're still out in the parking lot playing with Diet Coke and Mentos?!?! Our next match starts in 1 minute!"

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2007-the game- "Shoot Faster"

Dave (nervously biting his thumb nail): I have a bad feeling about this... I really don't think I should have let Tony convince me that cruise missiles would be okay...

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"You know, while we were considering all the things that robots could do during this competition, eating the balls and spitting colored confetti into the goals wasn't one of them."
"OK, so now what do we do? There are no more balls in the shipping container and I don't even want to think about going into the field with that thing still out there."
"Yeah, I know what you mean. I am thinking about that kickoff last year when the camera locked on to my shirt."

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From right to left: "Yep..."
"Yep..."
"Yep..."
"Uh-huh..."

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Apologies on the lateness--between getting back from UCF at 6:00 AM with two more hours of driving to go, plus moving back into Preston, I had to invoke the Billfred Is Working Way Too Much Rule.

First place goes to:

Second place goes to:

Honorable mentions go to:

1) KathieK
2) Conor Ryan
3) artdutra04
4) Al Skierkiewicz
5) MissInformation
6) Zach Purser
7) Lil' Lavery
8) DjAlamose
9) Rich Kressly
10) Tim Delles
11) EricH
12) Ogre
13) Rich Wong

And the burn award...

Which means the scores are:

Onward!

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Can't a guy find a decent place to be a curmudgeon around here?