"Quotes" that were said during build season

[Karibou]

On the way home from Traverse City:
Mallory (Millory) (narration-style): "On my way back from winning the Spirit Award, I wondered if we got in a car accident if the award would pierce my heart....just like FIRST."

Chairman's highlights:
"We believe that the message of FIRST should be spreadable, just like butter"
"When we went to our first event, we just couldn't believe it's not competition"
"FIRST, to an outsider, may seem like it's just about the robots. However, if you take a look at the ingredients, it's clear that it's really made up of coopertition, gracious professionalism, learning, and frienship"

[demosthenes2k8]

Team lead: "This is a ghetto robot. And we're white."
...
Same team lead: "The robot should be called G-Thuggin'. It's just that ghetto."
...
Same team lead: "WHO TOLD THE PRESS THAT THE ROBOT'S NAME WAS ACTUALLY G-THUGGIN'?"

So apparently that's the robot's name this year. *facepalm*

[Dragon Princess]

we have orange tights for spirit, so one day walking down the street at the Hartford regional, we all started singing we are the tigers! the mighty mighty tigers!!!

[agentmicrofishy]

I finished my algorithm for the mecanum drive. It's insane... - Agent Q (our team is the Caiman Agents, hence the agent names)

Have fun working! - Agent Indecisive

[Barngirl425]

This is while I was rebuilding a gear box while we were walking to que because the set screw came out of the motor

Mentor "This is not good"
Me "here just let me do it"
*Takes the whole gear box appart puts the screw in puts the whole thing back together before we reach que"
Mentor "you memorized how to put these together"
me "yeah"
Mentor "wow and I thought I was a dork"

[Thing2_1723]

"WHAT?" "YEAH!" "OK!" - team cheer. its loud and hurts the throat

"I was the center of a 200 person mosh pit"
"Oh my"
"Whats 'oh my'?"
"That's not normal"
"It is here" - my older sister (not a robotics person) and I

"Sorry, I tried to insert logic into competition" - random voice behind me at GKC

"I have apple in my shoe!" - Dyta-Dee while crating our robot for Dallas

[lightsandmusik]

*Talking about an easy fix*
"K.I.S.S. Ryan!"
"What?"
"K.I.S.S!"
"Wait what?"
"No! don't kiss Ryan!"
- Peter and I

P.S.- K.I.S.S.= Keep it Simple, Stupid (or Keep it stupidly Simple)

PPS sorry if this makes no sense haha

[RoseJ]

Me: Woah, those are shiny balls!
Some guy who heard me: Why thank you!
-While helping set up the field and pits for the Kettering competition, I was walking back to the pit area and passed where they were bringing in the soccer balls.

Said countless times by many people: Let's go hang ourselves!

Me to team: We should go to a safety guy after this and POINT it out!
-Back in the stands after our team won the Excellence in Engineering award at Kettering. Has anyone else noticed how sharp the tip of the triangle of the award is?

Me: There should be an award for a GRAYT small team!
-A few minutes later in the stands during the awards, I was making punny jokes and stuff. For the people who don't know, our team only has 5 students on it. XD

My favorite quote that I said during competition:
Me: Team 1322 graciously accepts!
-As team captain, I got to go out for the alliance selection, and team 1322 was chosen~ Thank you to teams 201 and 245~

[Brandon_L]

The Penny:

Waiting in the que for our 3rd match, we look down and find a penny. Heads up. We picked it up and pocketed it, and we won the match. Afterward, we taped it to the robot and every time we went up we would kiss the penny, and win.

So day 3 rolls by and we forget to kiss the penny. Guess what, Battery falls out and gets dragged around the field.

All hail the magic penny!

[Karibou]

Originally Posted by RoseJ

Me to team: We should go to a safety guy after this and POINT it out!
-Back in the stands after our team won the Excellence in Engineering award at Kettering. Has anyone else noticed how sharp the tip of the triangle of the award is?

We have! One of our sponsors/mentors lightly stabbed herself on one of our awards at Pittsburgh. We put one of our safety cones on it afterwards [: That's also where this quote came from.

[RoseJ]

Originally Posted by Karibou

We have! One of our sponsors/mentors lightly stabbed herself on one of our awards at Pittsburgh. We put one of our safety cones on it afterwards [: That's also where this quote came from.

You would think that they would have the point rounded down; after all, safety FIRST~

My friend when watching a FIRST competition for the first time: Awwww! The robots are so cute!
-She has heard endless stories of robotics from me, and only just saw her first competition match. XD

[Lee Reid 3136]

Originally Posted by RoseJ

Me to team: We should go to a safety guy after this and POINT it out!
-Back in the stands after our team won the Excellence in Engineering award at Kettering. Has anyone else noticed how sharp the tip of the triangle of the award is?

The winner of the safety award at the Virginia Regional said they were going to file down the point once they got it back to their pit.

Team Captain: "We could use the thingy! Does anyone know where it is?"
Me: "It's in the bottom left drawer."
Mentor: "You know what he is talking about?"
Me: "Yeah it's the thingy! How do you not know the thingy?"

The thingy = the threaded piece of metal, with the black piece of plastic that spins around it, that came in the kit of parts. We never used it on our robot but almost everyone has played with it at one point or another.

[Kimmeh]

"One rolled over, the other played dead!" - In one of our matches on Saturday at West Michigan, one of our alliance partners flipped over, and the other one had communication issues and wasn't moving.

[Ed__]

"OW" "what?" "I stabbed myself with my awards they are SHARP" me and the teams co driver

[McVey]

My personal favorite from this year:

"Guys! Great news!"
"You got the penalty removed?"
"I have no idea, but I got Dean Kamen and John Abele's signatures! Best penalty ever!"
__________________________

Coach: "Do any of you know a Sean? He signed up for the team online."
Myself: "I have no idea who Sean is, don't accept him into the team."
Coach: "Still though, I do want to know who he is... oh well."

-1 week later-

Coach: "I got an e-mail from Sean's mother, they were looking for 3339, Sean is from Tel-Aviv Israel."
Entire team: "WHAT?"