pic: Team 1114 Teaser

[Brandon P]

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[VEN]

NO clue what Karthik is doing but that thunder chickens shirt is giving me some ideas haha

[JackN]

Wow this is the most obvious teaser ever. Lets break it down, piece by piece.

Thunderchickens shirt=4 Bar/8 Bar Linkage
Karthik=Robot will be no taller than he is, so it will be like 5 feet roughly
Box Covering Karthik's head=The robot will be rectangular
Large black Spots concealing their Shop=Probably nothing important, just maybe their actual robot (Knowing them it is already done and they have already began practicing with their drivers)

I do think it is weird about the large black thing covering the top left of the picture.

[Chief Samwize]

I bet they are goin to build a robot!

-Sam

[GaryVoshol]

Too much analysis, Jack. It's simple. Karthik has suffered some kind of robot anxiety collapse, and therefore 1114's strategy will be to steal from the ThunderChickens. Not ideas, the whole robot. Put guards at the bridges and tunnel now!

[Beth Sweet]

Karthik, always at the height of fashion, models what would have been the big look at this year's Golden Globes.

[Derek Bessette]

I leave Karthik alone for one night and he gives up our whole strategy. For that Karthik, no more singing for the whole weekend! Brandon, your punishment is no right turns until Monday. That will teach them!

[Travis Hoffman]

In addition to Jack's observation on the central blacked out rectangle, and aside from thinking Karthik's accoutrements make him look a lot like Michael Jackson as The Scarecrow in "The Wiz", and that he should consider getting a new hat, I was drawn to the blacked out spot on the wall. Perhaps a printout of the new design, or a reference to robots of years' past?

[Nuttyman54]

hmm...looks like a helmet and safety goggles to me..I wonder why they ever would need that? And I seem to recall certain teams doing very well launching spherical objects in a previous year.

It's too obvious, so I must be wrong.

[JaneYoung]

Having given this some thought and to add to what has been said:
As a safety precaution, Karthik is serving as a reminder to all of us to think outside the box.

And obviously, 1114 has something up their sleeve (or shirt).

[nuggetsyl]

You are going to think inside the box.

[smurfgirl]

Somehow I doubt it will be the only teaser of the season, but here's a guess:
Those aren't safety glasses Karthik is wearing, they're special "awesome-shield" glasses so that the awesomeness radiating from him doesn't kill us all. Everyone on 1114 is going to have to wear those glasses, and they're going to need to put them on their robot, too. Maybe they'll even have awesome-shield capes and gloves and stuff to protect us even more.

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by smurfgirl

Somehow I doubt it will be the only teaser of the season

The pic's from the beginning of the 08 season, not the upcoming 09 season.

[smurfgirl]

Originally Posted by lilstogi11

The pic's from the beginning of the 08 season, not the upcoming 09 season.

Yeah, I realized the date on it after I posted, oops. ):