"Quotes" that were said during build season

[EricH]

Heard on the Waterloo webcast:

"We currently have zero representatives for alliance selection! This will make for very quick elimination rounds."

[viperred396]

Somthing that our mentor said to another team about their broken robot


"It wouldnt be FIRST if it didnt break"

[GCentola]

Originally Posted by EricH

Heard on the Waterloo webcast:

Speaking of Waterloo: "Look at them eat the fender! EAT IT! OMM NOMM NOM NOMEY NOM!" -Paul Copioli

Karthik and Paul were a heck of a lot of fun to watch this weekend!

[Suitster]

(when we used the lightest team member as ballast for testing the drive system)

"Unless something goes drastically wrong, the bot will turn slowly"

very soon after that line

"And this is why it is bad to divide by zero"

[sithmonkey13]

During the St. Louis Regional, one of our drivers was giving handshakes where he runs his fingers along your hand, which feels incredibly weird. The resulting conversation happened after he given the handshake to a driver on our alliance (for a qualification):
S (Our Coach): C stop that.
C (The one giving the handshakes): What, I'm making friends.
S: No, you're making restraining orders.

[lorem3k]

"Who's ready to strip some greasy old trannies?" (Referring to old transmissions, of course.)
"You can play basketball, right? Let's just cut your legs off and put you on the drivetrain."
"It doesn't need to fit right now, we'll just let it 'self-machine'."

[PAR_WIG1350]

Originally Posted by lorem3k

"It doesn't need to fit right now, we'll just let it 'self-machine'."

Due to the frequency with which we do this on our team, we have agreed upon the standardized term "self-clearance".


NOTE: Actually, it is often meant as a joke, but not always. Saying that you are 'breaking in' a P60 (banebots transmission), a very common practice recommended my many here on CD, you are really running it until it stops grinding itself into dust due to the colliding gears not fitting together properly. Using this technique for pneumatic wheels rubbing against a transmission output shaft is another story.