CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #262
 

Here we go!

The scores after the last round:

And the picture:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/32882

As always, the deadline is theoretically sorta kinda Saturday at midnight Eastern.

Go!

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Being an engineer on the cutting edge of innovation and all....how the heck did Raul not see the takeover of his own creatures coming? ....Oh right, those championship banners were blocking his view.

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Om Nom Nom.

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How Wildstang motivates the unmotivated: "See, kids? The ones we don't send over to Hammond, IN get a little one-on-one time with the robots."

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Um, I don't think that's what Dottie meant when she said to "get your head in the game."

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Welcome to Wildstang: the leaders in robotic innovation. Wildstang makes all other robots obsolete. Doing dishes, delivering the mail, patrolling the cities for crime, activities that you know as done by humans will soon be a thing of the past. Wildstang robots will be everywhere, functioning in ways you can only imagine, including national defense. But that is only the beginning. Soon Wildstang will launch its newest technology in computer networking, allowing all Wildstang robots to communicate with one another and be completely autonomous from all human control; Skynet....

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There goes Raul, thinking inside the box again.

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Wildstang's 2009 robot attempts to pick up a Wild Cell. While worth over 100 points, it requires the robot to detach the cell from a "commander torso", located in the middle of the field.

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Press Release:

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Contact Team Wildstang for ordering information.

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This is what happens when you steal from Beatty - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9cvZ_HKrCw - the built in super-secret decoder-ring comes in the design. And when it's activated,the robot turns on you.

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Here we see Wild Stang's answer to the problem of having enough 2009 playng pieces. It can replicate any Cell from organic or inorganic material thus it's also great for the environment. Here we see it ingesting a UDT (Unidentified Dead Thing).

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This is Raul's way of being "one with the bot" by getting a new perspective on mechanical design. Successful as it was, it needs more work before being released on an unsuspecting public.

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"Hey, look! A Cheeto!!"

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Failed Marketing Concept #203: Wild Stang bed pillows.

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Raul couldn't find his thinking cap so he improvised, showing the true and full measure of being a geek.

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And this, boys and girls, is what happends when you attempt to shut off one of our robotic overlords.

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OK OK!!! We wont stick you in the crate without a nightlight!

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In 2009, Wildstang built a robot that could rip people's heads off. By threatening referees and opposing pilots, they managed to breeze through Einstein undefeated and take the championship title.

I don't even want to know what kind of monstrosities they committed to earn the Chairman's Award a few years back...

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Save a life. Become an organ donor.

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Upcoming Military Robot Could Feed on Dead Bodies

<npoe>I couldn't stop myself</npoe>

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Robot: "Mama Mia! Dat's a spicy meathead-a!"

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While the take-down was amazing, Wildstang discovers that they need to make a slight adjustment to the robot’s vision system and programming to ensure that the robot can tell the difference between an orbit ball and a human head.

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[New entry]

On hearing that the robot was underweight, Raul decided to try weightlifting using the robot.

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(Raul being sucked into the bot)
Raul: No please let me go! I'll do anything!
(Student snaps a picture, turns off bot)
Student: See, that wasn't so hard. Now I've just got to go post this on Chief Delphi. Within a week it will have circulated throughout the entire FIRST community. It will become a classic, the stuff of legends: mentor devoured by his own robot. Heck it might even end up in one Bilfred's caption contests.
Raul: On second thought you can let the robot finish eating me.

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Wildstang's bot goes - er - wild.

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I guess there was so much empty space in Raul's head, the robot thought he was a super cell. *shrug*

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Wildstang programmer: I told you not to hurt the robots feelings!

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[NAE]On reflection, I'm going to go with my first entry, if possible.

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(to the tune of rock-a-bye baby) Rock-a-bye, Raul, inside the bot...

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I see the problem, the what-you-called-it is stuck in the do-hacky which caused the thing-a-magit to slipped and jammed the thing-a-ma-bog. Someone hand me a left-hand spanner wrench.

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[new entry]Wildstang redirected their robot at Billfred so that they would win the caption contest, explaining why the judging is late. They are clearly in violation of a rule, but no cares because these contests have ruined enough of our lives that we want him stuck in there for a few weeks.[/new entry]

[nae inserted by edit because the forum is stopping me from making a new post]That allows for one day, we now need a new rule to explain 1 day, 18 hours. What could it be called?[/nae]

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[Not an Entry]I believe that would be The OTHER Heidi Foster Rule. However, I will take a second invocation of the Billfred Is Working Way Too Much Rule as an explanation.[/Not an Entry]

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[Not an entry] I vote that it's the little-used "Billfred is watching the moon landing" rule.

But I see his little green light is on at the moment, so we'll see....;)

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You're all wrong, actually. Since the deadline is midnight on Saturday night, it follows that the judging would happen at some point on Sunday. I was predisposed on Sunday until an hour that you wouldn't want me judging the caption contest, so I invoked the BIWWTM Rule. That gives me until today, most of which until now was spent in a state that my employer wouldn't want me judging the caption contest. (I like my job, and they pay better than this gig. What can I say?)

First place goes to:

Second place goes to:

Honorable mentions go to:

1) Rich Wong
2) Akash Rastogi
3) Taylor
4) Barry Bonzack
5) KarenH
6) Chris is me
7) Don Rotolo
8) Matt Attallah
9) rsisk
10) JaneYoung
11) GaryVoshol
12) Daniel_LaFleur
13) bobwrit

And the burn award goes to:

Which means the scores are:

Onward!