Effective FIRST Strategies - Chapter 12: Don’t use your annoying kids for pit scouting
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Make them detangle batteries.
A vexing problem: How do you know which battery is recharged?
All these batteries! So powerful they rotated the picture.
(John Travolta on his knees) it’s electrifying
Karthik charging the batteries for his jump assist boots before his next MC gig.
I mean… we don’t anything about the 2019 rules, so we need to prepare for the case where having 200 batteries is legal. “Be prepared,” right?
FIRST reveals what was powering the DOGMA system all along…
“This station is now the ultimate power in the universe! I suggest we use it.”
We charge the batteries on this steel wall here. When they’re fully charged, current falls off – and so do they. Hey, looks like Karthik drew battery-catching duty today!
Karthik spent all of his robot units on chargers and batteries
Karthik in beast mode - how many people can he get to turn their heads sideways to look at the picture?
Only two teams came to VEX practice, but Karthik came prepared.
Replacement entry
Me trying to make sure my computer is charged so I don’t miss the Andymark product reveal.
He needs time to run a full battery of tests.
Heh! They’re all just empty boxes…
[NPOE]: Man, those earthquakes are getting stronger…[/NPOE]
These batteries are not being charged – they’re actually powering the event.
Obviously Karthik doesn’t have his electrical mentors hat on. I think there is one plug left open in the power strip in the far back.
“The source of how Karthik keeps his personality electrifying and his commentary charged.”
I promise I haven’t forgotten about you. 
First place goes to:
Second place goes to:
And the burn award goes to:
Which means the scores are:
Tomithy 85
Cyberphil 82
efoote868 81
Leap 76
EricH 72
GaryVoshol 68
cgmv123 62
ctt956 60
GeeTwo 56
bdaroz 49
DonRotolo 48
Wayne Doenges 48
ClayTownR 46
carpedav000 26
SaltisVonWaltis 22
Al Skierkiewicz 19
npatony 17
jaredhk 16
snoman 14
Andrew_L 13
Sanket Nayak 12
ljensen 6
PeterR 6
Hitchhiker 42 5
tanman172000 4
niklas674 2
bobbysq 2
Big-b 2
Darre_Bonfire 2
Dan T. 2
DohertyBilly 2
ThatSoftwareGuy 2
gixxy 2
Zagar 2
Onward!