CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #687

Happy FTC Kickoff week, everyone!

The scores after the last round:

cgmv123	39
Nessie	35
petercooperjr	34
ctt956	32
EricH	30
GeeTwo	26
GaryVoshol	23
efoote868	23
Wayne Doenges	21
carpedav000	21
bdaroz	20
Bkeeneykid	18
DonRotolo	18
Hitchhiker 42	16
marcusbernstein	15
niklas674	14
Thayer McCollum	13
RoboDesigners	12
Leap	12
Pooja Anil	10
Hess1113	10
asid61	8
WillNess	7
IndySam	6
logank013	6
frcguy	4
Jon Stratis	4
SassyJapan	4
snoman	3
dodar	2
Golfer4646	2
gcgeobuff	2
ollien	2
AustinShalit	2
OwenDotCode	2
Charlie.bishop	2
Levi Madden	2
fargus111111111	2
Brian M	2
bbensel	2
bobbysq	2
Tom Ore	2

The rules, for the newbies.

And the picture:

https://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/35671

As always, the deadline is nominally Sunday at midnight Eastern. I’ll be in Atlanta this weekend for the FTC Kickoff event there, so feel free to submit your entry in person.

Go!

Team 494 decides to walk a mile in the referees’ shirts.

The MARtian takes a break from strategy for FRC to look at the FTC game.

Somebody signed up a 19 year old martian blow-up doll on firstinspires, and it turned out to be the only volunteer qualified to referee.

So that explains why referees sound like they aren’t speaking English most of the time…

Is using the levitation powers of a UFO a legal method to score the cap ball?

Little known fact: This little guy was the actual cause for Phyxt Red Cards.

“If you ask me, those referees are just full of hot air.”

FTC decided to trial the referee autopilot program during lunch. Results still pending.

FRC Team 469 substituted a blow up Martian for a ref. No one noticed the difference.

[NPOE] J/K :smiley: [NPOE]

This contest entry is giving Karthik flashbacks of the IRI talent show circa 2007. Martians? Balloons? PANIC!!

The Martian challenged one of the actual referees to see which one of them could ref better. Who won? The one that didn’t have any eyes.

“No no no, on his planet, he’s 19, so it’s okay.”

While everyone thought it was a good idea, they soon realized the new ref was blowing call after call.

After the event was over the Referee was looking pretty deflated. Volunteering can be exhausting!

“It’s not easy being green…”

[NPOE]OK, I am really dating myself here. If you want to know, google it[/NPOE]

Early ref training for 2018, in preparation for the “Strong ability to swim/stay afloat” requirement.

I really hope that martian is over 19 years old…

At last!

First place goes to:

Second place goes to:

And the burn award goes to:

Which means the scores are:

cgmv123	41
ctt956	37
petercooperjr	37
Nessie	37
EricH	32
GeeTwo	28
GaryVoshol	25
efoote868	25
Wayne Doenges	23
carpedav000	23
Leap	22
bdaroz	22
DonRotolo	20
Bkeeneykid	18
marcusbernstein	17
Hitchhiker 42	16
niklas674	14
Thayer McCollum	13
RoboDesigners	12
Pooja Anil	10
Hess1113	10
logank013	8
asid61	8
WillNess	7
IndySam	6
frcguy	4
Jon Stratis	4
SassyJapan	4
snoman	3
dodar	2
Golfer4646	2
gcgeobuff	2
ollien	2
AustinShalit	2
OwenDotCode	2
Charlie.bishop	2
Levi Madden	2
fargus111111111	2
Brian M	2
bbensel	2
bobbysq	2
Tom Ore	2
tjf	2
OMGRobots1	2
MattR501	2

Onward!