Does Your Drive Team Have Any Pre-Match Rituals?

[dmelcer9]

Originally Posted by Briansmithtown

It was a ritual we hold so clear and dear to our team.

I can't think of a match where we didnt do the ritual.

We always called it... "Deploying the code"

And the inevitable "IS IT DONE YET!"

THIS MEANS WAR.

But in all reality, it's gotten much better since we switched from Labview to Java because now it takes 30 seconds as opposed to 20 minutes (and no, this is not an exaggeration).

Anyways, our drive team does a chest bump when the announcer says our team number.

[polytechnique]

We rub our hands together menacingly. Every time we do it, Autonomous seems to work properly.

"plus fifty to roast"

[Briansmithtown]

Originally Posted by dmelcer9

Anyways, our drive team does a chest bump when the announcer says our team number.

Was that new this year? In 2014, when they announced our name, we would just bang on the plexiglass.

[Cory]

Nothing weird. Our coach just has to wear a jacket tied around his waist, or else we lose (scientifically proven since 2011).

[dmelcer9]

Originally Posted by Briansmithtown

Was that new this year? In 2014, when they announced our name, we would just bang on the plexiglass.

Pretty sure what happened is that once of the regionals banned banging on the glass so the drive team substituted.

[CalTran]

2410's has our well known hat tip.

When I was driver in 2013, we also did the "I believe" chant before matches while huddled in a circle. It got some strange looks while in queue.

[SpoonMechanic]

We always bang on the plexiglass, and the drive team is usually dancing behind the driver station before every match, just to relieve stress.