Robowranglers 148: No Co-op Left Behind

[GreyingJay]

Originally Posted by Matt_Boehm_329

I have to ask. What is this cheesecake reference. Is it like a new corndog thing?

It refers to the act of providing a third alliance member with a contraption fashioned for them to increase their usefulness to the alliance.

Coined because "everyone loves cheesecake!"

There is a large thread discussing the merits and ethics of "cheesecaking" another team, especially when the "gifts" come with conditions, e.g. "we will choose you as our third alliance pick and give you this nifty ramp if you will agree to sit in the corner and be tethered to it". Admittedly this is a worst case one-sided scenario, there are plenty of examples of teams working together to make robots better suited for a particular alliance.

At GTR central both the finalist alliances had examples of this. 1114/610/1547 had the ramp tether scenario, and 2994 was turned into a gigantic canburglar to help 188 and 4001 (unsuccessfully). Apparently other regionals were seeing similar activities. The cheesecake reference and thread came very shortly after this.

So, now, because I'm still new - what are the corndog references?