The FIRST Devil's Dictionary

[techhelpbb]

Originally Posted by artK

Powdercoated (adj.): An 100% accurate way identify the robots that the mentors clearly built all by themselves.

Powdercoated plastic:
What happens when students learn a new trick...

[Ginger Power]

Teh Chezy Pofs(n.) An FRC team known to set the blue (banner) standard year in and year out. See also Simbotics

OP(n.) 1. An FRC team rumored to have never lost a Regional. 2. A dominant robot creating force that makes you smack your forehead at the end of each build season and ask yourself why you didn't just do what they did.

[Jalerre]

Vision Processing (n.) the thing programmers say they're going to do every year but never have time for

Software Problem (n.) when the robot doesn't work properly

Robot (n.) a mythical object that programmers are always hearing about but never get to see or touch

[Caleb Sykes]

Lunacy (n.): 1. A benchmark used when talking about how bad the current year's game is. 2. The game that must not be named. See Lord Voldemort

Ariel Assist (n.): Let's go save the mermaid before Ursula gets her!

Mechanum (n.): An imaginary word used by individuals to prove their lack of knowledge of omni-directional drive systems.

[Beaker]

BBQ Statistics (n.) - A fun (and questionable) way to see the strength of a regional event.

Full Field (n.) - A magical environment which very few teams have, but many want.

Mountain Dew (n.) - Fuel that powers the programmers. See Pizza.

Magic Smoke (n.) - Powers motors and other electronic devices. Teams try their best to not release it. See Stall Current.

[Caleb Sykes]

Gregor (n.): A magical elf summoned by the forbidden word nationals.
See also Nationals

[EricH]

Freshman (n.) Team go-fer and filer of all sharp corners.
Sophomore (n.) A freshman who came back and is now in charge of making said sharp corners.
Junior (n.) A sophomore who came back to lead the current crop of sophomores.
Senior (n.) A student team member (and possibly leader) who will not be a student team member for very long. Usually found by grabbing last year's juniors.
Rookie (n.) A person or team who doesn't know what they're getting into in FRC because it's their first time.
2nd-Year Veteran (n.) See Rookie, but with a little more experience.
Veteran (n.) A person or team who has been around a little while, knows what they're getting into, and still comes back. Also see lunatic.

[Billfred]

Match winner (n.) A breed that had a startling near-extinction event in the year 2015. Only the strongest survived.

[TheBoulderite]

Powerhouse (adj.) An adjective assigned with any team that is better than yours.

[BL0X3R]

Primary Driver (n): Student driver that typically controls the movement of the robot. May or may not actually know what the buttons do.

Secondary Driver (n): Student driver that typically controls the movement of a manipulator or non-drive subsystem. Claims to know the buttons better than the primary driver, but most likely doesn't.

Human Player (n): The student on the drive team who typically introduces game pieces into the field. Usually decided by selecting the one student who earns the least amount of foul points for touching the wrong thing at the wrong time. Doesn't have to know any buttons.

Drive Coach (n): The only student/mentor on the drive team who actually knows all the buttons, but cannot, by the rules, use them, therefore resorting to yelling directions towards the primary and secondary drivers between communications with other teams during the match. See Conductor, Commander, or Dictator.

Match Strategy (n): The result of three drive coaches or other appointed strategists arguing in the queue about who is going to do what and how during the upcoming match.

Queue (n): Somewhere teams should be on time but are always late to.

[Aaron.Graeve]

FMS (n.): An almost incomprehensible collection of computers, wires, and network switches designed to never connect your robot and Driver Station on the first attempt. See mDNS.

Field Fault (n.): One of the many FMS standard operating procedures and the one you pray for when a mach is going poorly. Usually appears once in every 15 matches for no reason.

Christmas Tree (n.): The only festive phrase that will make FTAs universally frustrated. See Field Fault.

[CaptainKirby]

Average Match Score (n): something that people only talked about during Recycle Rush

Harpoons (n): A beautiful idea.

[TheBoulderite]

Indiana Robotics Invitational (n.) A competitive event and the bane of world champions. See OP Robotics.

[Abhishek R]

Drive Practice (n.): Time used for testing the autonomous functions of a robot every night the mechanical team is not modifying the robot.

[orangelight]

Robot Troubleshooting(v.): A time when everyone blames the programmers for the robot not working but in reality it's electrical's/build's fault.