Best Alliance Selections Acceptance Ever

[Hallry]

Alright, probably not, but hey, I got your attention, right?

With this year's Monty Madness being his last competition as a student, FRC Team 1676's graduating 2-year Co-CEO, Jeff Chen, wanted to top his pizza-box Alliance Selections acceptance from last year.

What he ended up doing this time was, well, certainly memorable.

How many other people can say they've been shirtless on an FRC field before?

[DonRotolo]

Already posted here

Gee Ryan, you're slipping...

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by DonRotolo

Gee Ryan, you're slipping...

Man, I must be getting old

[dodar]

Im sorry, the 118 acceptance from 2008 on Curie is the best ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbBx-bqUBhQ

[JohnFogarty]

Originally Posted by dodar

Im sorry, the 118 acceptance from 2008 on Curie is the best ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbBx-bqUBhQ

LOLOLOLOL

[mlantry]

Originally Posted by Hallry

Alright, maybe not, but hey, I got your attention, right?

With this year's Monty Madness being his last competition as a student, FRC Team 1676's graduating 2-year Co-CEO, Jeff Chen, wanted to top his pizza-box Alliance Selections acceptance from last year.

What he ended up doing this time was, well, certainly memorable.

How many other people can say they've been shirtless on an FRC field before?

To slow

[Jscout11]

I was standing right there on the field. It was interesting to say the least.

Edit* At Monty

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by Jscout11

I was standing right there on the field. It was interesting to say the least.

Which one, Robonauts or Pioneers?

I have to admit that Robonauts wins for originality, since it was 6 years ago.

[jblay]

I love both of these so much, it has gotten me thinking about what clever things we could do in the future. You get a few seconds to say yes, while you have the entire arena's attention. Why not go out there and do something awesome?

[S.P.A.M.er]

At 2014 South Florida, we had the Ninjaneers student (who is a girl) accept an invitation by saying "we'd be honored to possess your balls." lets just say we never saw that one coming and it left the MC speechless.

[BigJ]

Most years we try to do a gag during alliance selections, here's ours in 2013 at 13:00.

One year we tried doing a gag with delivering packages as alliance invitations (and having them "sign for it" if they accept) but other alliance captains got really confused, so we don't do invitation gags anymore.

[Shrub]

I remember someone accepted an alliance invitation at North Star and said "hell yeah!" Which made a lot of people actually gasp (myself included). At our state competition, someone pretended to get a phone call and called up the team they wanted to invite, that was pretty cool. These are super great though, I can't wait for people to get even more creative.

[Chief Hedgehog]

Here you go - the 'Phone call' starts about the 25 sec mark...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSQlPM9Yi1U

Originally Posted by Shrub

I remember someone accepted an alliance invitation at North Star and said "hell yeah!" Which made a lot of people actually gasp (myself included). At our state competition, someone pretended to get a phone call and called up the team they wanted to invite, that was pretty cool. These are super great though, I can't wait for people to get even more creative.

[Ginger Power]

Originally Posted by Chief Hedgehog

Here you go - the 'Phone call' starts about the 25 sec mark...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSQlPM9Yi1U

I was really impressed that 3018's team rep was on the ball and had a clever answer. . . That was a really fun alliance selection.

[jvriezen]

At MN State tournament, 2530 (Inconceivable)'s mascot dressed as Dred Pirate Roberts from Princess Bride was also our alliance selection rep.

The acceptance was three words: "As you wish"

On a related note, one of the favorite buttons given away was from our team -- "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my robot, prepare to die"