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Successful teams - in almost any aspect of life (i.e. not just robotics) - don't make excuses and assign blame when something goes wrong. They improvise. They adapt. They overcome. They correct the problem and move on. |
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Billfred |
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People aren't getting angry at teams who play defense. They are getting angry at the teams who play BattleBots in the middle of a FIRST match. |
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Billfred |
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The game ends after two minutes and fifteen seconds. The build season ends after six weeks. Using the experience to help improve yourself and the rest of the world will take the rest of your life. |
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Bharat Nain |
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OooooohhH! OOOOooohh! Can I start the 2009 thread yet? Huh? Can I? Can I? |
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Billfred |
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Earlier today, I finally saw a copy of the [WFA] essay that was submitted by my team (there will be a separate reckoning later with all those that kept this a secret from me). The narrative overwhelmed me. |
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Billfred |
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"FIRST" is not a verb (yet - give us time, and we will see what happens). |
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Jessica Boucher |
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In the professional world, spelling mistakes, grammatical shortcuts, leet-speek, and misused verbiage are not interpreted as signs of cute, efficient communications. They are indicators of illiteracy, inefficiency, unprofessional behavior, and sloppy work habits. |
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Karthik |
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They knew that the number of gracious, professional, make-your-grandmother-so-proud-she-will-puke moments of exemplary behavior by the teams would far outshine any minor mistakes or incidents of less-than-perfect decorum. |
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jgannon |
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"Nuclear" is pronounced "nu kli Er." It is NOT pronounced "nu kU ler." When you use this pronunciation, no matter how smart you may actually be, you sound like an illiterate dolt (are you listening, Mr. Bush?). |
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BaldwinNYRookie |
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But if we just re-play "Triple Play" then what in the world will the Game Design Committee do with all that new-found free time? Since they wouldn't have to come up with a new game, they would have to concentrate on other things - like how to enforce the proposed "no metal on robots" rule. |
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Daniel Brim |
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we can crank up the volume and let the world know that we are nerds with a pulse! |
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Shu Song |
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The bleachers at a FIRST competition should be full of people blasting energy out of every pore of their bodies. |
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Amanda Morrison |
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By the way, if anyone happens to find my dignity lying around anywhere, please let me know. I seem to have lost it completely. |
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Daniel Brim |
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Look guys, I am telling you for the fourth time - you are NEVER going to earn your official "Geek" certificates if you keep spelling "pwned" with an "O" in it! |
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Billfred |
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You know, sometimes it is really cool to be a geek! |
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Chase |
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We all need to keep things in perspective. When you look back at the entire 2005 FIRST season, is your entire experience defined by the presence of a little cloth flag on the play field? |
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Mike Schroeder |
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It makes you wonder what sort of sick, twisted mind would do such a thing to all those innocent teams out there...
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p.s. note that 5-1/2 hours in the car with your daughter on the way to IRI is NOT the same as 10 hours in the van with seven members of Team 116 on the way to IRI. One is a wonderful familial experience, the other is an opportunity to go insane. |
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Conor Ryan |
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note: spelling, punctuation and good grammar are your friends - use them and enjoy the benefits of legible, understandable prose |
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Billfred |
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If there is water in the 2006 game, I will blame it on Gary. |
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Billfred |
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Let's just say that I am old enough to... |
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Beth Sweet |
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The point is that while having the abiltity to find information in a variety of reference sources is a useful skill, it does not replace a good, complete, fundamental knowledge of your subject material. |
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RogerR |
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So just stamp "GEEK" on my forehead |
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Billfred |
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I've got it! INFLATABLE clown fish!!!! |
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Billfred |
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We want your $0.02!!!! (and for that matter, if anyone can loan me $1.49 for a few donuts....) |
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Ian Curtis |
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"Pimp my shopping cart"?!?! |
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Conor Ryan |
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We have to have a water-based game discussion each year, because every time I try to start up a "jello-based game" thread no one takes me seriously... |
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Conor Ryan |
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"You know, if we shoot the flame thrower out of the back of the car while driving down Main Street at 2:00am, we are probably going to get in a lot of trouble..." |
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Squirrelrock |
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we used to walk barefoot through five feet of snow to get to school, uphill both ways, with just barbed wire for mittens, and we liked it! |
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Denman |
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The very fact that parts are rumored to be being re-used may be sufficient reason for the rule-makers to change a rule to prevent the re-use of that very part (not that they would ever be that devious!) |
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Ian Curtis |
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I once started to build a time machine. But then I went back in time and told myself that it wouldn't work, so I gave up on it. -dave |
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Matt Krass |
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If they want my business, then they should act accordingly. If they don't, I am quite happy to take my business (and that of my $16.5 billion organization) elsewhere. |
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Ian Curtis |
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The gates were removed for this game so that it would be easier to get the Zamboni in and out when the field was resurfaced after each round.
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Ian Curtis |
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srawls: Look, all I did was say "Hi, my name is John V-Neun" and it just happened... |
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Jay Trzaskos |
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Yippee! Someone else that can have their every word over-analyzed, mis-read, inverted, converted, perverted, misinterpreted, reverted, and garbled besides just me! |
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RogerR |
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When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay. |
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Billfred |
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We are making this up as we go along - please don't confuse us by telling us the way that it really should be done. |
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Elgin Clock |
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Wow! Can I be wrong too? Please! |
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Joe J. |
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First off, let me suggest that you read the rules! There is an amazing amount of really good information in them. |
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Billfred |
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Now repeat after me: it is just a game. It is just a game. It is just a game... |
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Billfred |
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Ultrasonic sensors will allow you to do fundamentally the same thing that the bump sensors do...so you can slow down and smoothly stop your robot just before it reaches the end wall, instead of running into it at full speed and then figuring out "ohh! there is a wall there!" |
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Billfred |
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The 2006 FRC Manual: Read it. Learn it. Know it. |
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Jessica Boucher |
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Good engineering often comes down to knowing the difference between "better" and "good enough." |
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Collin Fultz |
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If Teflon-coated pans have a no-stick surface, then how to they get the Teflon to stick to the pans? |
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Michelle Celio |
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And trust me, the very last thing you want to see is me with time on my hands and access to power tools. |
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ForgottenSalad |
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So perhaps those that are so eager to complain might realize that if they spent a little less time complaining and a little more time analyzing the problem and developing solutions, then they might have a little less to complain about. |
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RogerR |
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"Splet" is the sound a frog makes when it hits pavement at 187 feet per second. Don't ask me how I know. |
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Tureyhall |
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we would all build robots to play "rock-paper-scissors" if FIRST told us to, cause it is just so freakin' much fun to build a robot until 2:30am every night for six weeks! |
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Billfred |
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Lighten it up a little to bring it in under the 120 pound weight limit, and I think you will have something there!
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Michelle Celio |
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I am still holding out for the jello-based game |
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