CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #812

It’s that time again!

The scores after the last round:

efoote868 113
GaryVoshol 102
gellnick 101
Tomithy 95
GeeTwo 87
Squirrel2412 85
EricH 81
Wayne Doenges 71
cgmv123 67
EricKline 63
Mr.Mascot 60
gixxy 56
C_MacC 47
Osby 47
quin 40
DonRotolo 39
wgorgen 38
Aiden 20
VanNerd 19
NatsirtD 18
Richard Wallace 12
jackTHEnerd 12
Thequackmaster 12
hamac2003 10
clonedcheese 9
Kaitlynmm569 8
typeusernamehere 7
SaltisVonWaltis 6
Attention 6
rsisk 5
Mika1820 4
AustinShalit 3
Leap 3
ljensen 2
TheFlash 2
SnapDragon 2
Duoquinquagintillion 2
346CADmen 2
GoalkeeperBoss 2
Gavatron77 2
AsianManSteve 2

The rules, for the newbies.

And the picture is a rare one straight off the camera roll:

As always, the deadline is nominally Sunday at midnight Eastern.

Go!

How to greet Billfred if you want any hope of winning a Caption Contest.

3 Likes

The students worship the elusive inner goal (not pictured).

We all live in a NASA Robot Cart
NASA Robot Cart, NASA Robot Cart
We all live in a NASA Robot Cart
NASA Robot Cart, NASA Robot Cart

3 Likes

Yet another good reason to wear safety glasses; many include a built in AR system. The students pictured think they are currently riding a roller coaster.

1 Like

Edit ; Rollercoaster posted a few seconds before me.

Alright team, we are a low bot. How are we going to play defense this year?

Students prepare for the 2021 FRC water game, by making a prototype splash mountain.

Mentor: “Who wants pizza?”

2 Likes

The original concept for Autonomous Mode.

This seams familiar… was this taken at Walt Disney World in the future if Epcot pavilion with the photo pass person in front of the new attraction coming into the spot where Ellen’s energy adventure was? With a change back drop of course.

“If we’re going to win the spirit award, we need to practice the YMCA!”

-Billfred, 2020

2 Likes

The team:
Guy in the left corner: What is my life rn…

Hands in the air everyone! We’re about to go through the TRENCH RUN!

When you criticize someone’s wacky idea in a brainstorming session, you have to atone for your sin. This year’s torture penance… stand in the rack with your hands up for 5 minutes. Front left - a budding engineer. His tired arms betray his (and every true engineer’s) inherent cynicism.

An abstract representation of what happens to a mecanum drivetrain: the four students with hands in the air are all tank drives, but the guy hidden in the left corner is a mecanum drive that was pushed almost completely out of the picture by the others.

All hail Dean Kamen!

Due to a misread of the rules, this team thought it was the TECHNICIAN’s role to operate the GENERATOR SWITCH. These four tried out.

[npoe]Billfred, are you still using a rotary phone, too?[/npoe]

The only people that be happy about being abducted by robots.

(Note: there is actually five people in this image, one is hidden be another)

Security camera footage of the great robot heist in progress.

Let’s get to the judging!

First place goes to:

Second place goes to:

And the burn award goes to:

Which means the scores are:

efoote868 115
gellnick 111
GaryVoshol 104
Tomithy 97
GeeTwo 90
Squirrel2412 87
EricH 83
Wayne Doenges 73
cgmv123 69
Mr.Mascot 65
EricKline 63
gixxy 56
C_MacC 49
Osby 49
quin 42
DonRotolo 41
wgorgen 38
Aiden 20
NatsirtD 20
VanNerd 19
jackTHEnerd 14
Richard Wallace 12
Thequackmaster 12
hamac2003 10
clonedcheese 9
Kaitlynmm569 8
Attention 8
typeusernamehere 7
SaltisVonWaltis 6
rsisk 5
Mika1820 4
Gavatron77 4
AustinShalit 3
Leap 3
ljensen 2
TheFlash 2
SnapDragon 2
Duoquinquagintillion 2
346CADmen 2
GoalkeeperBoss 2
AsianManSteve 2

Onward!

1 Like