Teasers that aren't teasers!

[Team 135]

I want to know your thoughts on all of these posts this time of year that say "Team 135 Teaser" or simular that show you a pic of something that we all have in our labs (piece of plywood, motor, ball, etc), that is not a teaser at all.

[MrForbes]

Just guessing....do you think they're kind of lame? I sometimes do.

[Taylor]

We could post pictures of pool noodles and plywood too, but we're conscious of bandwidth. And bumping 'real' pictures.

Sometimes I wonder if the 'tease' is just making people click on pictures of random crap.

[Koko Ed]

I pretend they don't exist.

[eternalearth888]

I guess if you've got nothing better to do, it doesn't matter...however, if you're really trying to figure something out, it's pretty much a big let down/insult. Its like saying, "I'm better than you just because I am" Whatever happened to gracious proffessionalism? Kindness? Team spirit?

A joke once in awhile is all good fun - but its really just gotten annoying.

[synth3tk]

Every single person has posted a teaser this season. Usually one or two teams post one, everyone spends time and have a good laugh trying to figure it out, and it usually meant something.

Now it's a bunch of wheels or the game piece sitting on something. They've been getting really lame, to be honest.

[Molten]

I don't mean to be excessive. But I'm seriously considering neg repping any thread with a misleading title. Specifically the non-teasers. I'm not a hard man to annoy, I know this. But this is certainly one thing that does it.

[Elgin Clock]

1114, 217 & 148 posted ridiculous & useless teasers as well this year, yet they seem to be popular among the posters here.

Oh the other hand, lesser known teams post pics they themselves think are funny but are in fact also ridiculous & useless, & get negative rep, or bad comments about the picture.

Talk about a double standard huh?

I think if we are to talk about ridiculous & useless teasers we need to address EVERY team who does it, but then again, my personal feeling is, that it doesn't matter what you post as a teaser.
If it's ridiculous & useless I'll just ignore it unless it's to make a comment on the teaser item itself, even if it's "just a kit part" such as a rover wheel as many people have pointed out as a "bad teaser pic".

$0.02

[Jeff Rodriguez]

More relevant now than ever:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=50698

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Jeff Rodriguez

More relevant now than ever:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=50698

Apparently those pleas fell on deaf ears.

Outside of the 1114, 217 and 148 "spoilers" where people are outright desperate to hear anything from those teams but in reality you aint gonna know diddly til February 26th what they got it's the "LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME!" age of the internet. Teams want to stand out so they do this.
I hate spoilers personally but it's a free country. Go ahead and post them but I have the right to ignore them and I will. End of problem.

[Paul Copioli]

All of you that include 217 in the list of teaser posts, please point me to any actual teaser 217 has posted. I really want to see the teaser we have posted this year.

Please get the facts before you post.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Paul Copioli

All of you that include 217 in the list of teaser posts, please point me to any actual teaser 217 has posted. I really want to see the teaser we have posted this year.

Please get the facts before you post.

This was the picture I was talking about that got everybody excited.
Like I said people want information on champions. It doesn't seem to be any different than Dave's odd game teasers. On February 26th all will be made clear and people can start to take their beatdowns no matter what information they got.

[JVN]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

1114, 217 & 148 posted ridiculous & useless teasers as well this year, yet they seem to be popular among the posters here.

Oh the other hand, lesser known teams post pics they themselves think are funny but are in fact also ridiculous & useless, & get negative rep, or bad comments about the picture.

Talk about a double standard huh?

I think if we are to talk about ridiculous & useless teasers we need to address EVERY team who does it, but then again, my personal feeling is, that it doesn't matter what you post as a teaser.
If it's ridiculous & useless I'll just ignore it unless it's to make a comment on the teaser item itself, even if it's "just a kit part" such as a rover wheel as many people have pointed out as a "bad teaser pic".

$0.02

Sorry if there is a double standard.
I guess we should all be equally interested in all teams, right? I should care as much about a kitbot drivetrain as whatever is being built in Hammond, right?

Yes, our teaser was ridiculous and useless. We know it was.
It was more of a parody of the ridiculous and useless teasers out there. It is also fun for us, because as said above -- everyone seems to eat it right up.

Don't worry, we won't be doing it again next year.
No more teasers from 148.

As usual, 148 will unveil our full robot in video form shortly after ship.
To tide you over...

Here is our 2007 video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...=robowranglers

Here is our 2008 video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fLf71xlVhE

2009, shortly.


-John

[Paul Copioli]

Ed,

I repeat. Please point me to a teaser post any member of 217 has submitted.

That was submitted by 1114 without any help from us.

Paul

[JVN]

Originally Posted by Paul Copioli

Ed,

I repeat. Please point me to a teaser post any member of 217 has submitted.

That was submitted by 1114 without any help from us.

Paul

Paul is the classy one, he had nothing to do with those teasers. It was all 148, 254, and 1114. We did it without 217's knowledge or consent.