CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #371

[Taylor]

Although it looked cool, nobody was willing to ride the prototype 3-wheeled Segway.

[NPOE]
I didn't realize until this past month that the Segway wasn't relased to the public until 2001. Kinda crazy that Mr. Kamen is always* introduced as "the inventor of the Segway" when FIRST is a decade older. I wonder how he was introduced pre-2001.

*the i.am.FIRST special did a great job of highlighting his other achievements.
[/NPOE]

[JaneYoung]

Driver: So... should we tell Coach that when they said, Mentor Match, they didn't mean... this?!

Operator: Nah. He'll figure it out and in the meantime, he'll have a ball.

[EricS-Team180]

371 Driver to Operator: " Coach is on the field! Let's play wrestlers and robots!"

[kstl99]

The coach was so proud of his team for getting the robot finished a week ahead of time. Then he came onto the field, saw that everyone else's robot was built to pick up tubes instead of balls and realized with fear and embarrassment that they had used the 2001 manual instead of the 2011 manual.

[DonRotolo]

371 gets disqualified for controlling their human player remotely during autonomous.

[HedgeHogGal99]

A coach on the field means it is a perfect time to chase them, they get a work out and you have fun

[Wayne Doenges]

Announcer: "And now the new game show you have all been waiting for, Robot Candid Camera. Here we see an unsuspecting mentor enter the arena. Now watch what happens next..."

[Katie_UPS]

The field didn't care WHO was playing, every team was 1000.

[Joe G.]

There's no workout motivation quite like 10 points for each chin-up.

[Molten]

Looks like a game hint. Next years game? Herding coaches off the field.

[Bill_B]

I'm feeling a little exposed without bumpers, but the sponsors should be happy with their display.

[NPOE]
Leave it to Billfred to find a picture with 371 in it for contest #371.
371 is a 3-narcissistic number. It is also sometimes known as an Armstrong number - an n-digit number that is the sum of the nth powers of its digits. More information here.

I'm awaiting contest 372 to see if this is a trend. It's my street address.[/NPOE]

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by Bill_B

[NPOE]
Leave it to Billfred to find a picture with 371 in it for contest #371.
371 is a 3-narcissistic number. It is also sometimes known as an Armstrong number - an n-digit number that is the sum of the nth powers of its digits. More information here.

I'm awaiting contest 372 to see if this is a trend. It's my street address.[/NPOE]

[obviously not an entry]

What, me do that? Total coincidence.

[DonRotolo]

Replacement entry:

"Ya put yer left foot in, ya put yer left foot out..."
(More likely to put yer eye out, buddy, if ya don't get off the field)

[NPOE]
Oooh! Billfred's around on a Saturday night! Maybe he'll judge the Caption Contest on time for once...

Originally Posted by Billfred

As always, the deadline is nominally Saturday at midnight Eastern.

[/NPOE]

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by DonRotolo

[NPOE]
Oooh! Billfred's around on a Saturday night! Maybe he'll judge the Caption Contest on time for once...
[/NPOE]

Yeah yeah, you fly cross-country and do it.

First place goes to:

Originally Posted by EricH

The playoff beard does absolutely nothing to counteract the effects of the caster wheel.

Second place goes to:

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

Driver: So... should we tell Coach that when they said, Mentor Match, they didn't mean... this?!

Operator: Nah. He'll figure it out and in the meantime, he'll have a ball.

Honorable mentions go to:

1) DRAKE2751
2) GaryVoshol
3) Al Skierkiewicz
4) DonRotolo
5) kstl99
6) Ninja_Bait
7) S.P.A.M.er 17
8) rsisk
9) rachelholladay
10) Katie_UPS

And the burn award goes to:

Originally Posted by PAR_WIG1350

Despite the disadvantages of casters, Team 371 was not once delayed because the field could not connect to their wireless bridge.

Which means the scores are:

GaryVoshol	29
Joe G.	29
EricH	22
kstl99	21
George1902	17
rsisk	17
dodar	16
JaneYoung	16
EricS-Team180	15
Katie_UPS	13
Taylor	13
DonRotolo	-infinity
Ninja_Bait	11
S.P.A.M.er 17	11
Wayne Doenges	10
Al Skierkiewicz	9
rachelholladay	9
Bill_B	8
HedgeHogGal99	8
jgw	8
Molten	8
Karibou	7
DRAKE2751	6
rtfgnow	6
Rangel(kf7fdb)	6
PAR_WIG1350	4
Colin P	3
Andy Baker	2
Chris is me	2
Cynette	2
akoscielski3	2
stundt1	2
Alex Cormier	1
LemmingBot	1
msimon785	1
SparxProgrammer	1
SuperNerd256	1

Onward!