At the 2008 Charlottesville FTC regional, the teams were divided into two divisions, only to face each other in the final matches. Between a couple of matches, a team from the other division, I never got their number, was frantically power walking through the pits, almost yelling, "Does anyone have a 12V DC motor?" Remembering we had taken two DC motors off our robot before our previous match, I instinctively said "YES", and everyone at our table spent maybe 10 seconds finding the motors and gave them to him, he hastily thanked us, and rushed back to his team's pit.
After the matches were over, he came back over to return the motors (we gave him two, because you never know if one is dead) and shook all our hands and said he was going to put us up for the gracious professionalism award, which apparently the FTC does not have, considering it wasn't mentioned at the award ceremonies. At the time, I was a little let down, then realized I didn't care about the lack of trophy or medal.
Also that day, our programmer, the other mechanical leader, and myself helped Team Tiki with their arm, turning a rather pitiful (sorry) 3:1 gear ratio and turning it into a more shoulder-like 9:1 so it could lift itself. (they still owe us $5 from the bet
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