Chief Delphi - Spotlight List

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Post	Quote	Username	Added By
	An awesome unveiling video is not necessarily an indicator of onfield performance.	ToddF	Travis Hoffman
	Defense is a good thing!	Kevin Sheridan	Mark Sheridan
	You don't see teams plastering the arena with signs saying "Show your spirit!" or "Be creative in your robot design!" or "Be sure to be innovative in your control!"	Mr. Van	Whippet
	There will always be a point in your FIRST experience when you realize you can get away with something that is against the rules. It is at that point when you have a choice to make about your own personal ethics, and what sort of example you will set for your students.	ToddF	Carolyn_Grace
	If you want to use the don't ask, don't tell logic about asking then you know it is wrong.	Steve W	rtfgnow
	Don't test your autonomous on the comp field. There's a practice field for a reason.	DampRobot	Whippet
	It seems ironic to me that a robotics competition would come down to human error, which is precisely what the field of robotics attempts to prevent.	David8696	Amanda Morrison
	If you think life is fair, you are sadly mistaken.	R.C.	Amanda Morrison
	We want people to exercise Gracious Professionalism® and play at their best, but also not really because we find this archaic rule to satisfy something related to inspiring students to pursue careers in science and technology.™	PayneTrain	DampRobot
	No Firsting way!	Tytus Gerrish	Whippet
	Being the GDC is not an easy job, anything can happen. Lunacy happened ::rtm::	Conor Ryan	SamC
	I watch students push themselves beyond their limits every year only to realize they have yet to find their true limits.	JesseK	dictionaria13
	As they say... I'd rather be lucky than good any day (especially Saturdays). :)	JVN	Amanda Morrison
	But please take into account that each year, the GDC has to come up with a rule book that will spend the next three months being picked apart by 40,000 of the brightest, most creative minds on the planet. I think they do an outstanding job of it.	dtengineering	Whippet
	I am the person I am because I have come to accept the mistakes I have made, not because I try to change them.	IronicDeadBird	Whippet
	This is what happens when Engineers try to design a sport.	Jim Zondag	Kevin Leonard
	Invest our time in enhancing the process of conceiving, designing, testing and deploying the game	billylo	Sparkyshires
	Coopertition™ can take many forms.	MrForbes	Brian C
	I see all these people complaining about the FIRST game having perverse penalties for playing defense...then we play without defense, and still people complain.	MrForbes	z_beeblebrox
	Just once I'd love to see a team come out to the field and say " Team xxxx rejects our reality and accepts yours!"	Koko Ed	DampRobot
	The toughest part about that Chairman's Award was the fact that someone was cutting onions in the stands near 558/on the field while it was being read out. At least that was the excuse I'm going to use ;)	esquared	Jon K.
	Wow, an entire thread with positive comments. I must be on the wrong forum... but my URL still says chiefdelphi.com. Hmmmm...	Chris Hibner	Hallry
	The sword is only as powerful as it's beholder. But if you choose the labview sword you won't get much tech support at regionals.	xXhunter47Xx	Whippet
	Adam, when most of us look at your robots, we aren't thinking, "How Creative!" What we are thinking is more like, "Holy Crap!"	Richard Wallace	Ekcrbe
	My favorite quote from my 4 year old daughter is, "if it works, who cares?"	drwisley	BBray_T1296
	I have never gone to a FIRST Robotics competition and not had fun.	mathking	aryker
	There is a really bad trap most people fall into, when presented with data they tend to trust it. This is dangerous.	Andrew Schreiber	cadandcookies
	Everyone should go look at the baby pics….it will make you feel better.	wendymom	Whippet
	Honestly, I can't understand why anyone wouldn't want to be a mentor. The fools don't know what they are missing.	Steven Smith	DjScribbles
	Doesn't matter what you use if you can't drive it.	efoote868	Whippet
	100% of the robots on Einstein in 2009 had hard plastic wheels for their drive train.	efoote868	Whippet
	When you tell any of your kids that winning isn't important, or isn't [I]that[/I] important, the flapping sound you hear is your credibility flying away.	jlindquist74	martin417
	We had an over all losing record this year. When I look at kid's faces, they don't give a rip about that. I see excitement about the next event and talking about improvements for next year. Winning is nice, but that is not the reason I do what I do.	wilsonmw04	Whippet
	As mentors we need to be good role models for students. Because like it or not, we will be role models.	mathking	aryker
	I believe in my students, I encourage them to fail in their endeavors to find the best formula. There is valuation in failure.	Chief Hedgehog	aryker
	What am I going to do with all of these torches and pitchforks now?	PayneTrain	Whippet
	It's sooo stressful! I brought my suitcase to school today, and I still don't know if we're going!	elfenari	Jessica Boucher
	FRC is a game of mentors. The best teams are guided by mentors who know how to balance on the knife edge of pushing the envelope and achieving success.	Mr. Van	rsisk
	I would like to complain about the game as well. Complain, complain.	Monochron	cadandcookies
	P.S. No matter what happens a build season, you will always have memories.	Briansmithtown	RamZ
	If any of these alliances happen, I think i'll eat my computer.	Anupam Goli	JNajarian
	WE DEMAND FREE CORNDOGS FOR ALL MENTORS UPON ENTRY INTO THE EDWARD JONES DOME. #yourmovefrank	Jared Russell	Whippet
	You know what they call the graduate with the lowest GPA in med school? Doctor. You know what they call the fourth robot in the alliance that wins Einstein? Champion.	Billfred	A_Reed
	You know what they call the graduate with the lowest GPA in med school? Doctor. You know what they call the fourth robot in the alliance that wins Einstein? Champion.	Billfred	Johnbot
	Maybe next season I want to develop and test a new metric for FRC scouting: Bumper Quality Rating (BQR). BQR-5: The platonic ideal of FRC bumpers. ... BQR-0: Moderate to heavy use of duct tape. I believe BQR would outperform OPR as a predictor of on-field robot performance.	Nate Laverdure	Christopher149
	Q: "What does your robot do?" A: "It collects data about the surrounding environment, then discards it and drives into walls"	tsaksa	Whippet
	Don't put any weight into the OPR. It's ugly and its momma dresses it funny.	wilsonmw04	Jacob Bendicksen
	Data is never ugly. It is only how you use it that can be.	Ed Law	kiettyyyy
	it's called the Mars Rock automode (you sit there and wait for Opportunity to come along).	EricH	DanielPlotas
	The Scouting Award exists. It's called "Championship Winner".	Chris is me	Grim Tuesday