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Re: CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #493

It's still Monday! (And unlike last night, I have working access to CD!)

First place goes to:

Quote:
Originally Posted by EricH
Step one: Build flying robot that looks like a future game piece.
Step two: Have robot put itself in the goal.
Step three: Lose all future matches because drivers have a lot of good landings*, but NO great landings**!


*Ones you can walk away from.
**Ones the flying vehicle takes off from.
Second place goes to:

Quote:
Originally Posted by efoote868
After the bottle of mountain dew didn't fly, the team decided to give up on the competition. Shortly thereafter, the team discovered an important property of mentos. This was the catalyst that propelled the team to first place.
Honorable mentions? It's Christmas--twos for everybody!

And the burn award goes to:

Quote:
Originally Posted by Wayne Doenges
Girl on right: "Are you sure this is how the Wright brothers started? I'm pretty sure they didn't have plastic bottles or styrofoam.

npoe]
Quote:
Put a big enough engine on it and you can get a brick to fly!
( I cannot lie, this one came from a description of the F4 Phantom)
That it does. They also said the F4 was a noise converter. It converted JP4 (fuel) to noise [npoe
Which means the scores are:

Code:
Taylor	80
Wayne Doenges	75
EricH	72
DonRotolo	68
GaryVoshol	56
Al Skierkiewicz	50
bardd	48
cgmv123	47
rsisk	46
dodar	45
Jim Wilks	39
Littleboy	27
efoote868	26
Pault	22
Jay Money 1058	20
TheCascadeKid	20
jwallace15	19
Tom Ore	17
rachelholladay	17
delsaner	15
Don Wright	15
Andrew Lawrence	14
Joe G.	12
Brandon1266	12
S.P.A.M.er 17	12
J.Warsoff	11
mdituri	6
orangemoore	5
Karibou	4
JohnFogarty	4
Kyle A	3
sarah_storer	3
Jay H 237	2
safiq10	1
Katie_UPS	1
XenoPhobic	1
Herbblood	1
Invictus3593	1
Jay O'Donnell	1
MetalJacket	1
Onward!
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2004-2006: FRC 1293 (D5 Robotics) - Student, Mentor, Coach
2007-2009: FRC 1618 (Capital Robotics) - Mentor, Coach
2009-2013: FRC 2815 (Los Pollos Locos) - Mentor, Coach - Palmetto '09, Peachtree '11, Palmetto '11, Palmetto '12
2010: FRC 1398 (Keenan Robo-Raiders) - Mentor - Palmetto '10
2014-2016: FRC 4901 (Garnet Squadron) - Co-Founder and Head Bot Coach - Orlando '14, SCRIW '16
2017-: FRC 5402 (Iron Kings) - Mentor

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