The FIRST Devil's Dictionary

[Taylor]

Battery (n): An energy storing device that features black and red wire handles.

Butterfly Drive (n): A clever way of combining the scrub of treads with the sloppiness of omniwheels.

Masking Tape (n): The preferred method of displaying a rookie team's number on its bumpers.

Master of Ceremonies (n): An individual whose prime objective is to determine different ways to create feedback using a wireless microphone.

Red Dots (n): A method of ensuring a rookie will never again post on www.chiefdelphi.com

Red 2 (n): The drive station that never connects properly at IRI.

Seventh Alliance Captain (n): The individual who announces the numbers of teams who (1)have already been selected, (2)are not at the current event, or (3)do not actually exist. Not necessarily in that order.

Stand Scouting (v): The action of taking copious notes about the bottom half of an event's teams before covering the papers with a spilled beverage, pizza sauce, and/or chocolate.

[TheBoulderite]

Coopertition (n.) A concept that you should work with the opposing alliance to score extra points. Generally is thrown out the window when elimination rounds begin.

[MysterE]

Bayou Regional (n): The regional in which a random Texas team will lead penitent Louisiana or Mississippi teams to World Championship.

[EmileH]

LabVIEW (n.): A programming environment designed to give rookie programmers the illusion of an easy method to program the robot. In reality is highly illogical. See Java

Java (n.): The programming environment that seems daunting at first, and takes 3 years to learn to full potential. See Seniors

C++ (n.): An older, less logical, more confusing relative of Java.

UNH District Event (n.): 1. Home to elimination ronds that never goes off smoothly. 2. In 2015 a human players button falls off getting lodged inside a stack in Finals 2, plus the lights go out halfway through Finals 1. 3. In 2014 was home to the most replays due to one failure (exit gate lexan entering the field).

[TheBoulderite]

Utah Regional (n.) A regional that some random out-of-state team decides to attend and wins.

[Jalerre]

Water Game (n.) next year's FRC game

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by MysterE

Bayou Regional (n): The regional in which a random Texas team will lead penitent Louisiana or Mississippi teams to World Championship.

Actually, this year it was an Arkansas team that picked two Louisiana teams.

[triumph69]

Originally Posted by Jalerre

Water Game (n.) next year's FRC game

Was just waiting for someone to go there...

[triumph69]

Battle Bots (n.) What everyone first thinks their joining when getting into FRC for the first time.

[RoboChair]

Originally Posted by Taylor

Butterfly Drive (n): A clever way of combining the scrub of a 4wd with the sloppiness of mecanums.

The proper term is Octocanum.
Butterfly is the one with onmi wheels.

[cjl2625]

Mechanical (n.): A wrench-swinging monkey who will never be as cool as a programmer.
"Can't those mechanicals work any faster? I wanna test the code already!"

[Joseph Smith]

Michigan (n.) 1. Land of a thousand districts. 2. Home of a thousand rookie teams.

Michigan State Championship (n.) 1.From 2009-2014, the highest concentration of competitive robots outside of IRI. 2. In 2015, a brief detour on the way to the World Championship.

[Jalerre]

Originally Posted by cjl2625

Mechanical (n.): A wrench-swinging monkey who will never be as cool as a programmer.
"Can't those mechanicals work any faster? I wanna test the code already!"

See Mechanical Monkeys

[tr6scott]

1” Open End Wrench (n) - Tool used by Drive team, (see Mechanical) to disassemble (see Magic Smoke) Classmate Driver Station during field set up. Sometimes preceded by, “Show us how you shake your thing” and immediately followed by “It must be a programming issue?”

[marshall]

Adjustable Wrench (n) - Tool used by students to make hexagonal or square shapes into circles.