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Re: Strangest moments at compititions

2007 at FLR
On Friday the GRR pit crew and drive team when to get are lunch so we begin walking down a long empty hallway to where are team had the box lunch. And then just as we started down the long empty hallway the spark's pit crew (some, no not all 40 hahaha i love 1126) and drive team started to walk the towards us the tensions grew as both teams walked 6 wide towards each other until the inevitable happen, an epic showdown, it was the greatest nerd fight ever seen in first of course all in good fun and yes we wore are glasses
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Re: Strangest moments at compititions

This happened at an off-season event but it still counts.

At TNT this year during the all-night practice matches 2 of our mentors wanted to drive so we let them. They made it around to try to knock the ball off the overpass. They raised the scissor lift and the robot tipped over and was down for the count. It is mainly funny because during the whole season including before ship not once did a student driver tip the robot or even get that close to tipping it, but the mentors had no trouble doing it.
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Re: Strangest moments at compititions

Let's see mine is back in 07 with Rack n Roll, I kept trying to assure my advisor that when people where bench testing the banebots they were overloading them and we would be fine. Well... we weren't, I remember changing the gear plates in those about six to eight times between both gear boxes, strangely I remember it being fun. We started having races to see who could do it the quickest.
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Re: Strangest moments at compititions

One of the strangest moments in a competition for me has to be the Great Lakes Regional in 2006. In our teams second to last match before the alliance selection, the bugle went off but nothing happened. Then the foghorn noise they use to reset the match went off. We changed our battery and prepped our bot for the restart but it happened again. The match was restarted due to technical issues not twice, not three times, but eight times!
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Josh, Brandon, and myself proceeded to take the elevator to our 8th floor room. The elevator stopped, and knowing days inn's decor it looked just like the 8th floor. Josh and I caring on a deep philosophical on how much we hate vista walked 2 doors down on the right side, and attempted to open the door with our key card. After 3 attempts it didn't work, when we realized that we were standing in front of room 632, not 832, and Brandon was no were to been seen... we ran the flights of stairs only to find Brandon laying across the bed laughing his head off.

After the first day at GLR the team went to the cracker barrel; were after being seated we were given menus then asked what we wanted to drink, I promptly ordered a cheeseburger; ketchup, lettuce, and tomato, only. The waiter responded,"would you like that to drink?" "Yes we could blend it up" "Would you like a straw?" "Bendy" "Ok" "Actually if you could get me a coke"
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Re: Strangest moments at compititions

The strangest moment for me was at the Long Island Regional in 2006. It was during the finals. After two matches, both teams had one win each. The third match was a tie. The fourth match didn't count because the computer messed up the score of the autonomous, so the bonus and which team would be on offense/defense first was wrong. It went into the fifth match which an alliance won. So it took 5 matches to determine the winner of the regional.
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Re: Strangest moments at compititions

Thats a fantastic recipie for heart attack!
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Re: Strangest moments at compititions

Surrealist thing at a regional last year for me happened at Los Angeles. I'm a bit hazy on the specifics; I think there was a long downtime between matches or something and some appropriate music came on so a couple of mascots decided to start a conga line...and just about everybody joined in! It was so long it almost was a conga circle... Apart from that, all I remember was running around like a loon trying to keep up with the line for about ten minutes or so. It was epic.

Second most surreal thing ever would be seeing the announcer on the FTC Franklin field willingly wear my co-driver's teal duct-tape-and-VEX-metal tiara for a match. Well, that or seeing another one of the announcers wearing one of the Einsten's Daughter's bright pink hard hats.
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Re: Strangest moments at compititions

Hmm in the 2006 midwest regional at UIC in Chicago, IMSA rammed our robot in the home area repeatedly attempting to dislodge us from the area (We were a rookie team , our ramp was deployed and we had limited mobility). After the match IMSA drew a penalty for it and we discovered a few parts strewn next to our robot , we assumed they were ours and took them with. Back in the pit we heard a announcement from IMSA asking for the specific part we picked up apparently it was crucial to thier drive and had fallen of in thier attack. We were faced with returning the part to a team most of us felt a lot animosity towards or being unsporting and keeping it. I was team captain and decided to return it, much to the elation of the IMSA team and i remember me giving a very snarky, grudging "your welcome".lol. Ironicly IMSA placed ahead of us by one spot in the heats taking the best placing rookie team award from us . It was made better by us winning the rookie inspiration award though .
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Re: Strangest moments at compititions

hmmm, i've got to say my craziest robo moment happened because of the st louis 2008. for my senior prom, our group was the Robotics group and we had robo boys from around the country fly in to be our dates Grant Cox (217 Thunderchickens) got up in front of my entire senior class and junior class and beat-boxed like he'd known them all for years. we ended up taking pictures in front of this random chicken painting and robot painting too. . . . (of course, he was wearing lime green . . .) he was just as much fun at prom as he was at every regional and even atlanta. trust me, The Robettes have a ton of robo prom pictures! Mostly because of St Louis 2008!
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Re: Strangest moments at compititions

Back in 06 my first year with the team we were doing tha aim high game and we were testing are shoter. so i was told to get the balls after they were shot so i did. we emptyed all the balls we had and i was throwing the balls back to one of my team mates. any how the ball missed him and landed infront of him. any how some how the shooter started up when he bent down to get the ball and i was right infront of it. i got OWNED!! by the 9 balls that we had in the shooter at that time. I ended up with a bleeding nose.. it was not too fun for me but to the 9 team mates watching it, it was looking back on it is still funny.
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On Friday the GRR pit crew and drive team when to get are lunch so we begin walking down a long empty hallway to where are team had the box lunch. And then just as we started down the long empty hallway the spark's pit crew (some, no not all 40 hahaha i love 1126) and drive team started to walk the towards us the tensions grew as both teams walked 6 wide towards each other until the inevitable happen, an epic showdown, it was the greatest nerd fight ever seen in first of course all in good fun and yes we wore are glasses
Oh that was so great! It seemed like forever since that hallway was so huge! Although I believe the "fight" your refering too consisted of us all sitting down and eating lunch together haha
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for my senior prom, our group was the Robotics group and we had robo boys from around the country fly in to be our dates
That is really cool. How did you guys set that up?
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Oh that was so great! It seemed like forever since that hallway was so huge! Although I believe the "fight" your refering too consisted of us all sitting down and eating lunch together haha
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Surrealist thing at a regional last year for me happened at Los Angeles. I'm a bit hazy on the specifics; I think there was a long downtime between matches or something and some appropriate music came on so a couple of mascots decided to start a conga line...and just about everybody joined in! It was so long it almost was a conga circle... Apart from that, all I remember was running around like a loon trying to keep up with the line for about ten minutes or so. It was epic.
At Worlds in 2003, there was an enormous conga line. It weaved across the floor of Reliant Stadium, and up into the stands. I can't really remember the specifics, I was pretty young at the time (6th grade). I know I've seen pictures of it floating around on the internet. But as far as Conga lines go, I've yet to see that one touched.

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(And trust me, the line stretches far beyond the edges of this picture)
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