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One of the teams (611, I believe) came to pit admin on Day 3 of the NASA/VCU regional to fill an oddball parts request - a pneumatic ROFLcopter for Team 1337. Team 1337 no longer exists, so this is obviously a joke. It was a good joke, but it didn't please everyone - pranks are fun early on, but on Days 2 and 3, it's kind of annoying to get bogus parts requests.
The pneumatic ROFLcopter was displayed at pit admin for a while until the team came back, needing the actual part attached to the sheet of paper.
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11-03-2008 19:35
wilsonmw04
Re: pic: Team 1337's Pneumatic ROFLcopter
FYI: Pit admin did not appreciate the prank...
I had to explain the joke to them, heck i even looked for team 1337 until I realized it was part of the joke.
[soapbox]just a friendly reminder to other teams tempted to try this again: the volunteers are taking time off from their busy lives to help you out. They are just as tired as you are and they my not understand why you are "pranking" them. I think it would have been much better for you to just say, "thanks for helping out!" [/soapbox]
11-03-2008 19:43
Tim Arnold
Re: pic: Team 1337's Pneumatic ROFLcopter
I lol'd.
EDIT: Morgan corrected me, I actually lqtm'd.
11-03-2008 20:01
Coredesat
Re: pic: Team 1337's Pneumatic ROFLcopter
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Originally Posted by wilsonmw04
FYI: Pit admin did not appreciate the prank...
I had to explain the joke to them, heck i even looked for team 1337 until I realized it was part of the joke. [soapbox]just a friendly reminder to other teams tempted to try this again: the volunteers are taking time off from their busy lives to help you out. They are just as tired as you are and they my not understand why you are "pranking" them. It think it would have been much better for you to just say, "thanks for helping out!" [/soapbox] |
11-03-2008 20:23
whytheheckme
Re: pic: Team 1337's Pneumatic ROFLcopter
I find this very, very amusing (with my apologizes to the pit admin people, of course.)
According to FIRSTWiki, team 1337 was from Germany, and never competed. Too bad. I bet they would have p//n3dz0rsLOLROFLMAOBBQ!!!
lol
11-03-2008 21:31
Nate Laverdure
Re: pic: Team 1337's Pneumatic ROFLcopter
You all really prefer Thursday pranks to Friday & Saturday pranks? I think I would much rather be the butt of a joke when I'm completely exhausted. It seems to me that few of us would want to be bothered from our work on Thursday ironing out various problems. Jokes like these are much funnier when they don't interrupt me from something more important.
In my experience the people at Pit Admin (as well as all the rest of our great volunteers) are wonderful, and they love being around you guys. Part of that is being able to joke around with you all, but a prank like this is definitely something to be done carefully and with the approval of your team's leadership.
To future Pit Admins: ignore requests for left-handed smoke shifters!
11-03-2008 21:49
JoshD
Re: pic: Team 1337's Pneumatic ROFLcopter
The companion cube one was pretty good too. Then again, anything would lift my spirits after what our overall result was.
11-03-2008 21:59
fredliu168
Re: pic: Team 1337's Pneumatic ROFLcopter
haha there's one 1337 made every year
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...highlight=1337
11-03-2008 22:02
Akash Rastogi
Re: pic: Team 1337's Pneumatic ROFLcopter
Wow, 1337 used to be (or was supposed to be?) a German team? What happened?
12-03-2008 08:20
Peter Matteson
Re: pic: Team 1337's Pneumatic ROFLcopter
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Originally Posted by lilstogi11
Wow, 1337 used to be (or was supposed to be?) a German team? What happened?
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