"Quotes" that were said during build season

[Karibou]

Originally Posted by davidthefat

Has any team ever rejected in the history of FRC?

There was a team at the West MI district (I believe that it was 2153, but I don't know for sure) that was pulled into the top 8 (from the top teams continually picking from each other). When it was their turn to pick, their representative politely informed the crowd that they would be withdrawing from the competition
because they had to make the long drive back up to the UP. Their student left the field to a tremendous round of applause.

[theprgramerdude]

Did we just build the kit of parts chassis in one day?

Yeah.

Why didn't we do this earlier? (said sometime during week 3-4)

[Tommy F.]

This happened once when I was asked to drill something.

"You did that wrong."
Me: "Oh. Where's Ctrl+Z?"

That's what happens when you let a programmer do something mechanical.

[Christopher149]

Originally Posted by Karibou

There was a team at the West MI district (I believe that it was 2153, but I don't know for sure) that was pulled into the top 8 (from the top teams continually picking from each other). When it was their turn to pick, their representative politely informed the crowd that they would be withdrawing from the competition
because they had to make the long drive back up to the UP. Their student left the field to a tremendous round of applause.

I think you're right with the team number. I also just want to say that we (team 857) had a slightly longer drive than 2153 but accepted as captain #7. This was also our first year as alliance captain.