CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #214

[Billfred]

Here it goes!

The scores, after the last round:

Don Rotolo    19
EricH    16
Travis Hoffman    16
InfernoX14    15
kramarczyk    14
acdcfan259    14
FoXy92    11
boiler    10
rocketperson44    9
Wayne Doenges    8
GaryVoshol    8
JaneYoung    7
Karibou    7
Rich Wong    7
Lions for First    7
KathieK    6
EricS-Team180    5
Al Skierkiewicz    4
lingomaniac88    4
Greg Needel    3
tim_reiher    3
"Big Mike"    3
BlondeNerd    2
SlaminSwimster    2
KarenH    2
Water Bandit23    1

And the picture:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/20246

As always, the deadline is theoretically Saturday at midnight Eastern.

Go!

[Taylor]

Yo, Tetra! Down in front!

[EricH]

The question is not how many clowns fit in the car, it's how many FIRSTers fit in the tetra. They're still engineering the optimum solution, which is why nobody is actually inside yet.

[Lions for First]

"if this is the game element fot next year im sure the size will go up"
(after the size is reduced that year)
"im starting to not like this anymore"

[Karibou]

Off-screen safety judge: "HOLD IT RIGHT THERE, you two* don't appear to be wearing ASNI-approved safety glasses! EVERYONE knows that corrective lens glasses do NOT constitute as safety glasses!"


*Bottom and top left of the members inside the tetra. It's hard to tell if they are or are not actually wearing safety glasses.

[Jay H 237]

How do you get a small child to look at the camera? Throw a stuffed animal out in front of them to get thier attention.

Now how do you get a bunch of FIRSTers to look at the camera? Throw a tetra out in front silly!

[Joe G.]

Team 303 discovers a limitation of Beatty's strategy, namely, difficulties accommodating consensus decision-making. This problem is further intensified with low-cost temples (See right.)

[Travis Hoffman]

The head advisor addresses the team while holding a standard tetra, trying to get her kids to understand. Channeling Harold Ramis, she begins....

"Well, let's say this tetra represents the typical size of an Innovation FIRST Victor 884 Speed Controller used in the FIRST Robotics Competition. According to this morning's press release, the new Jaguar replacement would be a tetra six feet wide and five and a quarter feet tall...kinda like that one you're standing behind...."

Student electrical captain, choking on his Mountain Dew...

"That's a BIG tetra...."

[Dan Petrovic]

What's more impressive? The fact that the robot is supporting the large tetra or that none of the members are hiding their faces from the camera. I thought every team had someone like that.

[kramarczyk]

<npoe>Wow, tough competition this week.</npoe>

So, while the rest of the country will be playing with a standard sized tetra, this district tetra is what Michigan has decided best suits the needs of thier region.

[GaryVoshol]

And here we see that the problem of English/Metric unit usage in the NASA Mars program has filtered down to FRC teams.

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

And here we see that the problem of English/Metric unit usage in the NASA Mars program has filtered down to FRC teams.

[nae] They said Dave Lavery's stomach ulcer grew three sizes that day.... [/nae]

[acdcfan259]

Team 303, heard Dave say "think big this year," and took it a bit to literally.

[JaneYoung]

The Panthers' safety claws for preventing catastrophes:
Be prepared when getting fired up during build.
Extinguish all doubts.
12 people to a tetra – no more, no less.
Watch out for crazy people like Copioli.

[Carlee10]

Team 303 has a fever, and the only cure is bigger tetras!!!