The FIRST Devil's Dictionary

[Taylor]

chiefdelphi (n): An internet bulletin board site where users can insult others' creations, or complain how things aren't how they used to be.

GDC (n): A collaboration of socially powerful people specifically created to not comment on individual designs.

Mentor (n): An adult who likes to play with children's toys, with children.

[The_ShamWOW88]

Nationals (n.) - a term that us old timers use when we've forgotten what year it is, See World Championship (n.), Worlds (n.)

Ship day (n.) - The day a completed robot was hastily packed into a large wooden box with a random assortment of graphics and numbers painted on the side, then shipped off to a faraway place, See Nationals (n.)

[DonRotolo]

Victor (n): An electronic device used sacrificially to prevent damage to a Fuse. Often also used to collect metal swarf. See also Jaguar.

[Monochron]

Originally Posted by DonRotolo

Victor (n): An electronic device used sacrificially to prevent damage to a Fuse. Often also used to collect metal swarf. See also Jaguar.

*sensible clapping*

[Caleb Sykes]

Lunacy (n.): 1. A benchmark used when talking about how bad the current year's game is. 2. The game that must not be named. See Lord Voldemort

Ariel Assist (n.): Let's go save the mermaid before Ursula gets her!

Mechanum (n.): An imaginary word used by individuals to prove their lack of knowledge of omni-directional drive systems.

[Caleb Sykes]

Gregor (n.): A magical elf summoned by the forbidden word nationals.
See also Nationals

[Caleb Sykes]

12V solenoid (n.): An expensive paperweight because the PCM is always set for 24V.

24V solenoid (n.): An expensive paperweight because the PCM is always set for 12V.

Robot Inspector (n.): A nice man who takes care of Curious George.

Serpentine Draft (n.): A systematic procedure used to encourage teams to be the 24th best team at the event.

SmartDashbord (n.): A convenient place to put a lot of information that the drivers will never look at.

[EricH]

Safety Adviser (n.) Person in a green polo shirt whose job often appears to be to force teams to use the LEAST safe way of doing any given work in the pits.

Pit Admin (n.) That voice in your head telling you to report to queuing, you are in the next match.

Queuing Team (n., plural) Cat herders, traffic directors, and "that's the exit gate" group.

[ratdude747]

Originally Posted by Caleb Sykes

Ariel Assist (n.): Let's go save the mermaid before Ursula gets her!

Arial Assist (n.): A game where times new roman (among other infractions) results in a 50 point Technical Foul.

Technical Foul(n.): A soul-crushing 50 point penalty. Second only to a Red Card. In 2014, these were assigned by a lottery, of unknown explainable algorithm.

Red Card(n.): The mother of all punishments on the field. The nightmare of drive teams, and in 2015, a form of execution in playoffs. See Stack Attack

Stack Attack(n.): 1. The 2003 FRC game that is among the top three worst games according to most. 2. In 2015, a large scale game of dominoes. A common cause of death in playoffs. See also Darwin Awards.

[EricH]

Freshman (n.) Team go-fer and filer of all sharp corners.
Sophomore (n.) A freshman who came back and is now in charge of making said sharp corners.
Junior (n.) A sophomore who came back to lead the current crop of sophomores.
Senior (n.) A student team member (and possibly leader) who will not be a student team member for very long. Usually found by grabbing last year's juniors.
Rookie (n.) A person or team who doesn't know what they're getting into in FRC because it's their first time.
2nd-Year Veteran (n.) See Rookie, but with a little more experience.
Veteran (n.) A person or team who has been around a little while, knows what they're getting into, and still comes back. Also see lunatic.

[Billfred]

Match winner (n.) A breed that had a startling near-extinction event in the year 2015. Only the strongest survived.

[TheBoulderite]

Powerhouse (adj.) An adjective assigned with any team that is better than yours.

[BL0X3R]

Primary Driver (n): Student driver that typically controls the movement of the robot. May or may not actually know what the buttons do.

Secondary Driver (n): Student driver that typically controls the movement of a manipulator or non-drive subsystem. Claims to know the buttons better than the primary driver, but most likely doesn't.

Human Player (n): The student on the drive team who typically introduces game pieces into the field. Usually decided by selecting the one student who earns the least amount of foul points for touching the wrong thing at the wrong time. Doesn't have to know any buttons.

Drive Coach (n): The only student/mentor on the drive team who actually knows all the buttons, but cannot, by the rules, use them, therefore resorting to yelling directions towards the primary and secondary drivers between communications with other teams during the match. See Conductor, Commander, or Dictator.

Match Strategy (n): The result of three drive coaches or other appointed strategists arguing in the queue about who is going to do what and how during the upcoming match.

Queue (n): Somewhere teams should be on time but are always late to.

[Aaron.Graeve]

FMS (n.): An almost incomprehensible collection of computers, wires, and network switches designed to never connect your robot and Driver Station on the first attempt. See mDNS.

Field Fault (n.): One of the many FMS standard operating procedures and the one you pray for when a mach is going poorly. Usually appears once in every 15 matches for no reason.

Christmas Tree (n.): The only festive phrase that will make FTAs universally frustrated. See Field Fault.

[CaptainKirby]

Average Match Score (n): something that people only talked about during Recycle Rush

Harpoons (n): A beautiful idea.