FIRST Terminology!

[Jessica Boucher]

Ok, Im really bored, and this has been talked about for a while....

There are some terms only a FIRST-er would understand...and I feel it needs to be compiled.

Please post your submissions in to this thread, and maybe I'll get a list/book out for Nats or something.

Heres a start:

*FIRST Purist - back to the early day's of FIRST corn, hexagonal fields, one on one.
*FIRST Puritan - defend the real FIRST rules, game, etc.
*FIRST Activist - any FIRST-er who will not keep their mouth shut about FIRST to others, or a FIRST-er who is very vocal in the FIRST community.
*Virginia Balance - method of balancing seen most frequently at the VCU regional in 2001, where if a judge could stick their hand/piece of paper underneath the low side of the balanced bridge, it was accepted as balanced.

Please submit terms that can be regionally/nationally accepted and understood, not some obscure term that only your team used (trust me, I have a bunch of them, too...but Im refraining). And feel free to bring in terms from past years.

Also, PLEASE, this is NOT the place to rekindle the bar-lok/tie-wrap war. Ok? Go take it to another thread, I want none of that here