"Quotes" that were said during build season

[blackbrandt]

Well... In describing the harpoon system that 900 was installing before EINSTEINS...


I was the guy answering questions about the robot. Someone asked what it actually was...

"This is a Hail Mary shotgun approach that borderlines insanity. Any questions?"

[evanperryg]

After having a disaster of a match because we forgot our ramp, we printed signs reading "dont forget the ramp!" and taped them all over the pit.

[Jack Gillespie]

Do you have any pneumatic fluid?

[devg29]

friend on another team: "well, it worked!" (it did in fact work, but we didn't do so well in the match)

[fovea1959]

Originally Posted by Jack Gillespie

Do you have any pneumatic fluid?

air *is* fluid, so that's actually a profound question...

[MattRain]

*autonomous starts*

*Robot moves*

*Robot Stops moving*

Student: "The robot stopped working in Autonomous."

Me/Coach: "GO kick it"

*Robot starts moving again*

(Multiple times, teams would laugh at us when they saw us do it on the practice fields.)

(We will be the first to die when the robots take over....)

[K-Dawg157]

Inspector comes to inspect our robot;

Inspector: And you don't have any sort of extra radio waves or anything that may mess up others right?

Teammate: Awww man! Does that mean no EMP'S?

[Poseidon5817]

One of our mentors, regarding our tote stopper mechanism: "It's almost like it's retarded or something!"

Me: "We can't stack that fast even if we do hack the chute door!"

Announcer from a regional: "If they stack those boxes they get HUUUGE bonuses!"

Me, after autonomous fails again: "Still more accurate than SpaceX."

We also named our stack clamping mechanism the #25fourks and our main elevator forks the #11fourkteens...

[aphelps231]

"We were supposed to queue in two minutes which was one minute ago" -a mentor

[astriano375]

* after auton starts and we run the code that does nothing*

"Hey look the code worked"

"Maybe it will break and give us a 3 tote auton"

[Deneb]

"Jackie Robinson, not DELPHI ELITE" (when discussing maximum points per stack)

[Jus_McG-3193]

Originally Posted by Deneb

"Jackie Robinson, not DELPHI ELITE" (when discussing maximum points per stack)

I'm going to have to take personal credit for that one . For those wondering, we said it jokingly of course seeing as team 48 (Delphi E.L.I.T.E.) is one of 3193's most trusted friends. It was brought up when a team member confused the maximum point stack for 48 points instead of 42. Why I chose Jackie Robinson I will never know

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by Jack Gillespie

Do you have any pneumatic fluid?

Originally Posted by fovea1959

air *is* fluid, so that's actually a profound question...

There was at least one call for compressed air in the pits at CMP. I'm presuming they wanted it for tools or practice, as the robot must compress its own air for competition.

[Sperkowsky]

Originally Posted by Jus_McG-3193

I'm going to have to take personal credit for that one . For those wondering, we said it jokingly of course seeing as team 48 (Delphi E.L.I.T.E.) is one of 3193's most trusted friends. It was brought up when a team member confused the maximum point stack for 48 points instead of 42. Why I chose Jackie Robinson I will never know

Jackie robinson is #42

[Padava]

A programming student after running a new auto.

"OK, so there are a bunch of numbers on this screen, so I'm going to read them"

15 seconds later

"I don't have the number I needed."