What are your Team Traditions?

[Wildcat]

one of the elegid ones on my team is when the drive base for the robot is operational, someone must be dragged around by it. i got to partake in this this past year, was fun

[Damaku250]

As we are a rookie team, we don't have any annual traditions yet, although there are a few terms we like to throw around.
"No crumbs in the cRIO" was our mantra toward the beginning of the build season and has continued ever since.
Any highly competent freshman or grade 9 is instantly dubbed a "Luke".
Any action both breaking something and not serving a purpose has been re-termed "sticking velcro", after a grade 9 with a tendancy to break things, and sticking velcro to our drivers station while we were trying to queue.
After a long day following traveling and repairs on the Wednesday of the championship, I was commenting on a grade 9's competence which came out as "complicence". it's stuck ever since. In addition, a comment during dinner on wednesday spawned the team compliment: " Thank you for your complicence...burgers come in pairs!"

[vigkvagkv2]

This is one mostly started by me, but I think it may stick. As you all know, robotics kids get a tad bit hungry. Some of the students are always first in line (myself being one), who also eats fast. Nobody is allowed to take seconds until everyone has eaten or said they won't have some. After I and a couple others finish eating, we storm through the shop making sure everyone has eaten. If they haven't, we badger them (to the point of us being yelled at) to make them eat.

[archer003]

1. Our team puts hello kitty stickers somewhere on the robot every year.
2. Chipotle happens at least twice during build season.
3. We always try to build a t-shirt cannon. (this year we actually did... but it blew up.. twice. PM me for details. haha)
4. we have a system for naming bots like naming hurricanes. Every other year, the robot is a girl's name. year one: CRAP (Cougar robotics automated Project). year Two: Sasha. Year 3: Mac (In honor of a teacher who passed away over the summer). Year Four: Helga. This year, we haven't decided. We need to get a feel for the robot's personality.
5: There is an unspoken competition to see who can get all 61 buttons at our regional first.
6: KISS. (Keep it Simple, stupid!)
aaaand lastly,
7: We use a classic red wagon to transport the bot. (That senior graduated tho, so I am now making a custom spray painted ACTUAL cart for the robot with our team's logo graphiti style.

[Henry Williams]

We have many here on team 461 so I'll just list a few...
1 One time a former student saw a pallet of peep bunnies and said 'bunnies' in a very high pitched voice, now students try to inject it into many conversations
2 If anything on the robot is not securely fastened and moves it is 'jiggle billy'
3 After kick-off there is an unnofficial official team brainstorm session @taco bell
4 The drive team bleaches their hair
5 Celebratory Pizza Hut if we win something big
6 NRBA (National Ripstick Basketball Association(Thats right, we play basketball on ripsticks))
7 and the last thing I will mention though there are others I would really appreciate it if you quote this to say if you have seen it at competition but we have a 8 1/2x11 foot Happy Cat poster that we bring to competitions to put up near the pits.
8 I nearly forgot to mention our stylish team hats

[384drtysteve101]

Whenever something goes wrong on the robot, no matter who's fault it is, build team blames the programmers, and programmers blame the build team.

Kiss your favorite part of the robot before it ships( or bag this year)

before i came on the team i heard of saran wrapping freshman, because we would saran wrap a bot before we shipped it.

Also a lot of the seniors would work on the bot during lunch, and would stick the lunch trays in the ceiling, forcing the school to buy like 300 more, haha, then they found them all afterward

We also shipped bots not bag and tag them...

A few of us, like drive team tailgate for lunch in the parking deck, during the regional

[James1902]

-All students present at ship get to sign the inside of the crate
-The crate get's a new, themed paint job every year
-New themed pins get made every year
-There's always a tool left on the robot, usually serving a functional purpose
-We eat lunch as a team at the regionals, and almost always end up with other teams there.
-The drive team does push-ups for every penalty they get during a match
-If we make the elimination matches the whole team get's orange and green hair paint
-If the robot makes it to Einstein the drive team get's to shave the drive coaches head...this has only happened once so far, and i'm the drive coach this year
-Win or lose, we always Oink Oink Boom

and of course before every match, as many people as possible have to kiss Wilbur

[ghizzle1168]

We have awesome Halo LAN parties at the hotels after competitions, one year we took the TVs from 4 of our rooms and put them into one for 8 vs. 8. It went all night and was pretty awesome. We also try to watch as many insane Japanese movies as we can. Team favorite is "Battle Royale". You should look it up.

[kgzak]

-we always put an extra victor on the electronics board
-me and another student never get to eat at competition (the one time we did we got in trouble )
-we go to a local restaurant after our last regional.

there is probably more that I am forgetting.

[Dominator1619]

No cutting metal until the start of week 4 (we are a student led team and mentors put in very little say about the robot. It's always about what the students want which is why this tradition always ends up happening. Good luck trying to get a bunch of high school students to agree on things in a timely manner)

The robot always has SARBEZ in it. This is a tribute to the school at which the team was founded which happens to have the Zebra as a mascot.

Everyone signs the robot on the first day of the first compition. The more years you've put in, the higher up the list you are to sign the robot.

We always have a "crating" dinner to celebrate the completion of another robot.

After our last competition, we always have an end of the season debriefing dinner at old country buffet.

Every summer we have a team picnic to bid farewell to outgoing seniors and to welcome incoming freshmen.

[MagiChau]

BOB rags is the tradition I most clearly remember. Spending days during Competition Season just pressed rags then plopping them onto fellow team-members' backs in the stands. Good fun until people start throwing them. Then it gets messy.