New FRC sponsor Marx wanted a tie-in with their product, so here we see human players for the 2009 game, Rock’m Soc’m Robots. (The third alliance HP is off fishing.)
The trackball got stuck in the chimney of Dave’s house. Apparently Mission-Fill-Dave’s-House-With-Useless-Hints-Of-Who-Hates-His-Useless-Hints did not go over well. Here we see his nephews interrogating it as to who committed the foul deed.
Santa: Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas! I come bearing gifts!
Kids: Yay!
(The kids open the gift, only to see that it’s the third game hint.)
Kids: Wait a minute… you’re not Santa! You’re Dave Lavery! GET HIM!
(They attack Dave.)
Dave: Darn it, I knew I shouldn’t have used the trackball as the fake stomach…
They fit in the box, they passed inspection, they even have colored bumpers. They just don’t have the concept of hurdling quite right
The Oompa-loompas prepare to juice the biggest snozzberry they’ve ever seen.
“What shall we do?”, said Thing 1 to Thing 2
Kid 1-“giant red ball! Prepare for battle!”
Kid 2- " Wait, no no, i think we should build a robot to pick up the ball, and carry it around, and maybe throw it over an overpass!"
Dave Lavery standing in the background- “Hmmmm… that sounds like a great idea for a game! Time to start tormenting the FIRSTers! Hehehehe”
I know I keep hearing that “The first person on Mars is currently between the ages of 6 and 16,” but isn’t this type of training beginning a bit too early?
Boy #1; "What is that thing?’
Boy #2: “I don’t know, but I will fight it while you get away.”
Boy #1: “What do you mean!?!? You’re the weaker one.”
Boy #2: “Am not!”
Boy #1: “Are too!”
Boy #2: “AM NOT!!!”
the two boys begin to scuffle
Red Trackball thinks to self ‘My evil plan is workng’
Off to the side:
Parent one: Thank goodness for FIRST. It keeps those busy minds active.
Parent two: Yup, gives them something to bounce their ideas off of.
Parent three: Not to mention themselves.
Children about to mimic their hero, the trackball surfer, Andy Baker: 3 2 1 - GO!
Future FRCers using virtual joysticks to control large red ball. It seems by their facial expressions that they are well on there way to being consumed by the passion.
Giant Radioactive Rudolph had a hankerin’ for some tasty young children that day…
One of very few recorded incidents of “Bumping to pass,” although I don’t think the GDC ever had trackballs in mind when this rule was written.
The GDC said that they would be involving humans more into the games… just that this isn’t what we were thinking of.
Who are these fellas rooting for?
Is it the Red Alliance?
Is it the Blue Alliance?
No it’s that alliance that always wins!
FIELD RESET!!!
At a loss of what to give their children that didn’t cost too much, these guys’ parents decided on a used trackball. It was a good idea, it kept them occupied for six weeks out of the year, but the boys started carrying safety glasses every where, had an excess of buttons, and only drank mountain dew.
Kid on the left: “Ok, you go for the left, I’ll go for the right! Together, we might stand a chance at lifting this thing!”
Kid on the right: roars in a deep, un-child-like voice “YYYYYYEAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!”
The kids quickly obtain the same expression as FIRSTers during build season- “WE WILL NO LET THE TRACK BALL CONQUER US!”
Let’s see if I can do these results without losing the thread a second time!
First place goes to:
Second place goes to:
Honorable mentions go to:
- EricH
- Taylor
- kramarczyk
- Don Rotolo
- Wayne Doenges
- JaneYoung
- Annette B.
- BlondeNerd
- lingomaniac88
And the burn award goes to:
Which means the scores are:
EricH 74
Travis Hoffman 67
Taylor 65
kramarczyk 63
rocketperson44 59
Don Rotolo 56
Wayne Doenges 49
GaryVoshol 47
JaneYoung 44
rtfgnow 29
lingomaniac88 39
EricS-Team180 37
Barry Bonzack 35
Al Skierkiewicz 33
Karibou 33
SlaminSwimster 29
acdcfan259 19
InfernoX14 17
Steve W 16
Andy Baker 15
Lions for First 15
FoXy92 12
KathieK 12
Water Bandit23 12
Annette B. 12
Rich Wong 11
Michelle Celio 10
lilstogi11 9
BlondeNerd 8
tim_reiher 7
Diriye 4
"Big Mike" 4
Elgin Clock 4
Greg Needel 3
FlyingCrayons 3
Hachiban VIII 2
Jay H 237 2
Jeff Rodriguez 2
KarenH 2
Katie_UPS 2
Schnabel 2
ZakuAce 2
bobwrit 2
cobrawanabe1699 2
Enigma's puzzle 2
Cuog 1
Dorienne 1
Kyle 1
LittleSwimmer14 1
MoeMom 1
Protronie 1
skimoose 1
whlspacedude 1
Zach Purser 1
Onward!