The FIRST Devil's Dictionary

[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.

[jajabinx124]

Aerial Assault(n.): Nothing but assaulting in this game, which led to police inquiry (refs.) about charges (fouls).

Picklist(n.): Horribly organized sheet of paper that is barely readable, and is only understandable by one person. No proper sense of rankings based on robot performance or role, just an assortment of random numbers on paper.

Match Strategy(n.): A rock paper scissors show off between 3 teams to chose which strategy to go with.

Alliance Selections(n.): A session where alliance captains pick random numbers.

Heat Gun(n.): Your build season replacement for a microwave.

[EmileH]

Referee Panel (n.): A device used to score an alliance or robot. In 2014 also used to enrage human players waiting for the pedestal to light up signaling the OK to start a new cycle after a goal was scored. See Aerial Assist