Funny Pit Announcments 2006
 

We were thinking of making an announcment "Team 696 is looking for a shoulder to cry on" or "Team XXX has lost their gracious professionalism, if anyone has found Team XXX's gracious professionalism, please return it to them immediately" Of course we were only joking and would never do such a thing. Funny to think about though.

We made the announcement "Team 696 needs rubbing alcohol" and it would have been funny if they left out the "rubbing" part.

What ones have you actually heard and what ones have you thought about?

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Thought about or attempted: "Team 330 is in need of a flux capacitor." "Team 330 would like a brass magnet." "Team 330 wants some aluminum PVC."

Heard (Thursday afternoon or evening, LA):"Team 1622 has passed inspection."

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I did like the way you got everybody out at closing: "Team XXX has left the arena, you should follow them" instead of the traditional "GET OUT. I'M NOT JOKING. GET OUT NOW!" :D

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Team 108 has made it a tradition to ask for a flux capacitor the past few years. Team 45 was kind enough to make one for us at Midwest last year (Thanks again guys lol).

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You missed the last one: "If you can still hear this, please leave now." After the last team was pretty much out the door.

(For those who don't know the background, Pit Admin left early Thursday and Friday, leaving the Spare Parts crew to man the mike and admin station. I was volunteering in Spare Parts and took over the job of pit announcer.)

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Heard at buckeye on thursday about an hour before closing time:

"The pits will be closing at 6:45 and all teams must leave by then"
:General groan and shouts of "WHAT?!" thoughout the pits
"Correction, the pits will be closing at 7pm"
:Cheers:

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I recall a team asking for a wire stretcher at Peachtree on Saturday. Forgot the number, though.

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It's been 573 tradition to ask for either a uranium rod or (if the robot has broken down) a functional robot :p

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At the St. Louis Regional, a member of 1625 asked for an improbability drive, this was responded to by a few scrap parts tied together.

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almost every year, first thing thursday morning, some team is asking to borrow a hacksaw

to get the pad lock off their tool box.

We should make a lock-smith award for these teams.

Its funny because it always seems to happen, esp at the championship.

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I've wanted for the longest time to ask one of our rookie members to ask for a left handed screwdriver. (Un)fortunately, all of them were smart enough to see past that...

Jake

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237 asked for a right handed bit shifter at Chesapeake =p

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I didn't hear any too amusing ones this year, but last year at SBPLI, the announcer kept going "Testing... Testing... This is my voice. This is the sound of my voice. This is my real voice." :P Got annoying after a while but still funny.

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We thought about asking the announcer at Wisconsin to say "Team 862 is in need of an A, could everybody give them an A."

Relating to our "Give Me An A" cheer.

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an aluminum magnet...
3/8 uranium rod


in auto, we always get the new kids with
piston return spring
muffler bearing
ignition sprocket
halogen headlight fluid
metric cresest wrench

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Personal favorites:

-Testing, testing... (3 of my team members) IT'S WORKING!
-Team 1504 would like to remind you to wear your safety glasses while in the pits (they WERE listening to me all through build season!)

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Here's a good one, "Does anyone have any elbow grease?" or "Does anyone have any headlight fluid?"

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Milwalkie regional

"the pits will be closing to 8 minutes, the dogs will be released in 6 mins"

St. Louis

"team 1625 needs an improbability drive"

thought about doing this one.

"team 1625 has lost there marbles are need other teams to help look for them"

"Ahhh!!! all these kids are driving me nuts! god! there all a bunch of nerds! I just want to kick them all in the.......Whoops! the microphone is on!"

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I've always wanted to ask for a positronic brain. It would make the autonomous so much easier. :]

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1511 asked for a flux capacitor

The strangest legitimate request was a tooth brush in botson. Even stranger was when I got there to give them ours there were atleast 6 other teams already there (Team 75 gave out care packages including Tooth Brushes.)

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last season Team 1155 found a 2.5" diameter drill bit (dubbed "Moby bit") in the school metal shop that we now use that we can not only find absolutely no use for nor a chuck for so these past two years we have brought it with us planning to have the pit admin make an announcement asking for a chuck for it, only to be stopped both years with odd looks and "are you serious" so instead this year a few of our guys went around to random pits asking for one, turns out the mentor of 1772(?) from Brazil has the drill press for it and is going to send us a picture when they return home.

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Our team tried the 'Flux Capacitor' at Milwaukee but the guy manning the pit table was hip to it. Someone did get him to ask teams for a nonferrous magnet though. I like that one.

Also, I like the metric cresent wrench! We'll have to try that one sometime.

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We <3 The Boston Regional Pit Announcer!! She was SOOO Awesome! haha. She did (with a straight face!) ask for a flux capacitor for us... she was by far the best pit announcer I have heard in my 10 years in FIRST! (you should all recruit her for your events!! hehe).

She would say things like:
"If you are in the pits clap your hands once... if you can hear me clap your hands twice... if you are wondering why everyone is clapping LISTEN UP!"

or just before the awards ceremony "If you can hear me clap your hands once... if you can hear me clap your hands twice... if you can hear me, you are wrong [get out of the pits]!"

Or she would tell bad jokes until we would leave the pits at the end of the night!

We gave her an award (a poof ball cut in half) as our favorite pit announcer ever :)

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Metric? Well if you're at the NYC Regional, ask us as we use the Metric System. In fact, it's where we got our name from :)


Anyway; it seemed that every few minutes there were calls of "759 is in need of cable ties" but I'm struggling to recall any funny ones. Considered putting out a call for a missing Union Flag though, which later turned up on a team mates back...

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I heard this one two years ago,

"Team XXXX is looking for their sanity. If anyone found it, please see the pit admin at once. Thank you."

The metric crescent wrench thing is a practical joke. Since crescent wrenches have adjustible jaws, they are neither Imperial nor Metric, but rather the subject of more freshman jokes than you can shake a stick at. ;)

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LOL !!!!!

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At BAE, we heard an announcement for an Aluminum Magnet.

At LA, we tried to pull it off, but the announcer was like, wait, does that even exist?

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The Flux Capacitor one worked in NYC :)
One of my teammates responded with asking for some Dr. Who term thing, but i dont think anyone got it...

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At our regional team XXX asked to borrow wire strippers and the announcer forgot the wire part X)

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She really was terrific - a 'posse' from 571 went over to thank her & the announcement table after the event.

One of the 'bad' jokes....
What do you call a guy who walks out in front of a car and gets run over?

Tired.

(too late to remember any others - i'll edit if i think of them)

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179 sent one of our noobs to get Claymore Mines from small parts

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I thought as much but we tend to use metric tools, few imperial allen keys or anything in our pits... Thus if anyone will have a metric instrument, we probably will. First thing I've done at the start of the build season the last 2 years was convert all the size and weight restrictions into metric as accurately as possible...

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lets see ive heard teams ask for a 10/32 or 8/32 bit a flux capicitor in which we brought over a block of wood to them and we asked for a banana a couch and $ to register for nationals cause we didnt expect to go

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Yeah, I gotta admit, I got fooled on that one. After we tangled with 45 and let loose some of their magic smoke at BMR, some kids went to their pits to see if they were okay. Andy Baker (bless his heart) said they needed three 10/32 bolts - we tore our pit apart looking for some.


::grumble::


Oh, well, as a teacher/sponsor I don't need to know anything - that's what engineers are for. As long as I can remember the number for Papa John's and drive the happy bus....

Now where did I put that board stretcher....

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Are you still looking for some elbow grease? ;)
http://kalecoauto.com/index.php?main...oducts_ id=32

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Often at BAE the pit announcer would misread 10-32 as 10/32

it took me a little while to realize that teams were looking for metric bolts not just using obscure fractions.

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10-32 screw (bolt) is a #10 size with 32 threads per inch

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Well i am the new guy on my team (the only rookie member) and i only got asked to request a Shop-Vac... i guess they were being nice to me....(thats never good if they treat the new guy nice) or they're saving it all up for nationals!

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Thats what they intended to have announced they announced ten thirty seconds instead that is what I thought was funny.

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The Boston pit announcer was the best

"Why doing you walk through the jungle between the hours of 7 and 10?
Because thats when the elephants jump out of trees.
Why do beavers have flat tails?
Because they walk through the jungle between the hours of 7 and 10."

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We had a great pit announcer at VCU, God was doing it! At the end of one of the days God came on to tell us that anything left in the stands wouldn't be there tomorrow, followed closely by God again (this time female) telling us something else.

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i think we have the same pit announcer at GTR

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At FLR, our team was looking for our poof balls that we lent out.

The Announcer said:

"Team 1930 would like their balls back. If anyone has seen team 1930's balls can you please return them"

It was really funny how the announcer said it. It reminded my team of the classic SNL sketch.

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Today at Las Vegas Regional. A team asked for Toothpaste and a hose clamp. Over the course of the practice day there were over 50 calls to assist team 555 with something.
Also in New Jersey Regional we had one of team members paged as Kidney San Martian.

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"Have you seen a green sharpie" after a kid loaned it out and never got it back.
Other good ones: transparent Al and non-bullet proof plexi

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But transparent aluminum isn't fake anymore... the military invented it last year. :p

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We loved the Boston regional pit announcer too!
On Thursday night a delegation from 467 thanked her. She was awesome.

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At the Florida Reional team XXX asked for a compressor so that they could "blow up their robot." Half the people in the pits burst out laughing and the other half had an "I don't get it" expression on their face.

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At NYC, team 375 asked for a crystal for a flux capacitor. Another team then said "tell team 375 to visit team XXX for their crystal'. Another team then said "Team XXX is looking to borrow said flux capacitor." This went on for about 5 minutes of announcements. The pit announcer then had to pull this same conversation again between the end of alliance pairings and the start of the elimination matches.

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LOL!! I did that to a guy on our team. He was walkin around for a while looking for it, then when another guy on our team made fun of him, he got mad and asked the other guy to go look for a board stretcher, which then of course, the other guy went running to the pits to look for it, and comes back about 10 mins later saying he couldn't find one. It was pretty funny for those sitting back and watching.

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at West MI they asked Saturday morning for someone to come up and sing ... and then some guy sang the Bilbo Baggins song... ahh good times

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OMG, that's it! Best idea ever. Karaoke in the pits! I'm starting a new thread with a poll.

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Here's one that I just thought of after seeing a few of these posts...

"Team XXXX is looking for a lovely bunch of coconuts"

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At the Lone Star Regionals, they announced, "No grinding in the pits." Half the people in the pits started dancing after that.

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OMG!! I remember that! It was soo funny!

Well I have always wanted to make the guy say "Team 589 needs a power cable capable of 1.21 Jigowatts" :D

I heard wrong one time where I thought he said:
"Team XXX needs a cuban metal pipe"
When it really was:
"Team XXX needs a cube metal pipe"

I have also heard:
"ahhhh :confused: , nevermind"

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at Philly (i don't know if anyone has already said this) the pit announcer said. "if you can't hear me, send a representative"

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At Toronto I heard this:

"Team 4 needs a robot"

Later on.... "Team 4 would like a Chassis and/or Drivetrane"




For those of you who haven't heard already, Team 4's robot didn't make it to the Toronto regional on thursday so they built an entirely new robot in 6 hours! :yikes:

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On Thursday at Toronto, team 229 had the Pit Announcer (1511's own Ashley Cheney at the time) announce that "Team 229 is in need of a Flux Capacitor."

On Saturday we had the new announcer say that, "Team 229 is in need of some DI-lithium crystals in order to run the Flux Capacitor that was graciously donated by team 121."

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when I was at Philly The announcer said " there will be no grinding in the pits" he turned and some kids start dancing and and got back on the speaker and added "of any sort" ( i dont know maby its not that funny, you probably had tt be there) :]

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At the GTR one of the strangest request I heard was " Team XXXX needs a blow dryer" but, it turns out that the robot got water damage and they need to try all the electrical parts. The control board got fried when they turn the robot on the first time though.

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at vegas there was this announcement... "team XXXX needs two tennis balls." it was followed by "this is a serious announcement, team XXXX would like to borrow two tennis balls. thank you". everyone was somewhat bewildered....

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On Friday at the Philly regional, the pit announcer stated "There will be no grinding in the pits"...and with a long pause then said "Of any sort"...lol my friend and I just looked at each other and burst out laughing!!! It was pretty funny!

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...That was pretty funny, I was with you it was funny!

(oh and i did not see your post and i like posted this a million years after you...lol i really am Blonde at times...lol!)

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At VCU there was the enormous block of foam. The announcements telling the responsible party to get "what appears to be a huge block of foam" out of the stands got pretty funny after a while. Of course, you had to be there to know really what I'm talking about.

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I dunno about funny pit announcements, but during last year's construction phase, one of 2024's chassis builders mentioned that thay needed a crescent wrench...and a life. A few other people responded with the classic "Don't we all!"

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That's so funny, that I almost died laughing!
(not sarcastic)

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Maybe since this is a two year old thread, a new one should be created. ;)

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psh of course!!!!

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Team 25 needs a new battery cart since the last one broke the land speed record for a battery cart.(no seriously it did, and we made a new one:D)

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Hmm, I remember hearing that someone needed a sheet metal cutter at SVR last year. Also recall someone needing a : "computer numerical control" machine. Best of luck getting those delivered to you in the pits. :rolleyes: