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Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...

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Originally Posted by octothorpe View Post
When it's 1am the night before the Saturday of a regional and even though I really need the sleep I can't tear myself away from CD.

When your team does the usual gag and has the Pit Admin announce a fake tool request - in this case a metric crescent wrench - and you actually get one.

Yes, we really got a metric crescent wrench. It was a bona fide crescent wrench marked with "250mm" (presumably the length). Team 1072, you guys are amazing.
Meh, I stayed up until 2 am Wednesday night before that same regional (Davis) to print out the scouting sheets, and had to get up to get there early Thursday morning!

And we asked for a four-and-a-half-speed spike. I'm afraid we'll never get the privilege of tool requests anymore, but we ended up winning the Judges Award later that day. Blammo!

Overdose on Robotics is:

-accidentally bringing home washers, ear plugs, safety glasses, a wrench, and (intentionally) at least a pound of buttons

-finding aluminum shavings in your Robotics sweatshirt pocket, and you washed it twice since your last session with a bandsaw!

-reaching into a drawer, feeling around, pulling out the exact size wrench you need and then immediately using it, in the Pits and all without looking

-referring to teams as other, slightly more famous teams (1147 as "Eleven Chief Delphi," which made an alumnus laugh)

-looking at a clock and thinking, "Oh, Athenian," instead of "Oh, it's 8:52, I should probably be doing homework instead of Chief Delphi"

-not even programming the robot, but half-learning to program, which leads to panicking whenever I miss a close-paren

-seriously considering skipping dinner so the elevator joystick will have all its screws back into place for competition tomorrow

-and of course, the classic screaming for the robot/team/alliance until your voice runs out!
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