Funny Pit Announcments 2006

[EricH]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

I did like the way you got everybody out at closing: "Team XXX has left the arena, you should follow them" instead of the traditional "GET OUT. I'M NOT JOKING. GET OUT NOW!"

You missed the last one: "If you can still hear this, please leave now." After the last team was pretty much out the door.

(For those who don't know the background, Pit Admin left early Thursday and Friday, leaving the Spare Parts crew to man the mike and admin station. I was volunteering in Spare Parts and took over the job of pit announcer.)

[Rombus]

Heard at buckeye on thursday about an hour before closing time:

"The pits will be closing at 6:45 and all teams must leave by then"
:General groan and shouts of "WHAT?!" thoughout the pits
"Correction, the pits will be closing at 7pm"
:Cheers:

[Billfred]

I recall a team asking for a wire stretcher at Peachtree on Saturday. Forgot the number, though.

[Lisa Perez]

It's been 573 tradition to ask for either a uranium rod or (if the robot has broken down) a functional robot

[hillale]

At the St. Louis Regional, a member of 1625 asked for an improbability drive, this was responded to by a few scrap parts tied together.

[KenWittlief]

almost every year, first thing thursday morning, some team is asking to borrow a hacksaw

to get the pad lock off their tool box.

We should make a lock-smith award for these teams.

Its funny because it always seems to happen, esp at the championship.

[pi_guy578]

I've wanted for the longest time to ask one of our rookie members to ask for a left handed screwdriver. (Un)fortunately, all of them were smart enough to see past that...

Jake

[Mike]

237 asked for a right handed bit shifter at Chesapeake =p

[ForgottenSalad]

I didn't hear any too amusing ones this year, but last year at SBPLI, the announcer kept going "Testing... Testing... This is my voice. This is the sound of my voice. This is my real voice." Got annoying after a while but still funny.

[Joe J.]

We thought about asking the announcer at Wisconsin to say "Team 862 is in need of an A, could everybody give them an A."

Relating to our "Give Me An A" cheer.

[Justin_302]

an aluminum magnet...
3/8 uranium rod


in auto, we always get the new kids with
piston return spring
muffler bearing
ignition sprocket
halogen headlight fluid
metric cresest wrench

[Beth Sweet]

Personal favorites:

-Testing, testing... (3 of my team members) IT'S WORKING!
-Team 1504 would like to remind you to wear your safety glasses while in the pits (they WERE listening to me all through build season!)

[BuddyB309]

Milwalkie regional

"the pits will be closing to 8 minutes, the dogs will be released in 6 mins"

St. Louis

"team 1625 needs an improbability drive"

thought about doing this one.

"team 1625 has lost there marbles are need other teams to help look for them"

"Ahhh!!! all these kids are driving me nuts! god! there all a bunch of nerds! I just want to kick them all in the.......Whoops! the microphone is on!"

[Simon Strauss]

last season Team 1155 found a 2.5" diameter drill bit (dubbed "Moby bit") in the school metal shop that we now use that we can not only find absolutely no use for nor a chuck for so these past two years we have brought it with us planning to have the pit admin make an announcement asking for a chuck for it, only to be stopped both years with odd looks and "are you serious" so instead this year a few of our guys went around to random pits asking for one, turns out the mentor of 1772(?) from Brazil has the drill press for it and is going to send us a picture when they return home.

[Freddy Schurr]

"Team XXX has left the arena, you should follow them"

LOL !!!!!