CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #884

Other Games/Trivia
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It’s a caption contest divisible by 52. You know what that means.
(Oh, you don’t? It’s the last contest before the annual score reset!)

The scores after the last round:

Tinnittin 197
Squirrel2412 185
GaryVoshol 161
DonRotolo 156
EricH 146
Osby 144
gellnick 132
efoote868 131
cgmv123 131
Wayne Doenges 123
quin 118
Tomithy 94
rsisk 43
Karaoke 31
Amicus1 24
EricKline 24
GeeTwo 20
NatsirtD 14
Taylor 10
gixxy 8
jackoleary 8
Andy Baker 5
clonedcheese 5
AustinShalit 4
ari_2412 3
PeterR 2
fuddster 2
wgorgen 2
TheRealJamesOo 2
Emiliano6181 2
Levi_Blumer 2

The rules, for the newbies.

And as usual for end-of-the-year contests, it’s a video!

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

Go!

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ATTENTION FRESHMEN!

If you cannot at least equal the robot’s performance, you will be stuck on shop cleanup until you are Juniors.

That is all.

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Another indicator that robots will never rule the world if this is how we train them for AI.

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And this is why human players are no longer allowed to score. Not to stop them from breaking the game, but to save them from embarrassment.

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The Robot was not impressed

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“I was just testing the ability of the power cell collection team”

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Demonstrating why she wanted the robot to be built with the capability to rebound missed shots. She admitted, with a capability better than hers.

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To be fair. She couldn’t see the retroreflective tape. It helps a lot in aiming.

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One of the basic design principals is to emulate in your robot mechanism what a human would do.

Or maybe not.

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How to get forbidden from touching game pieces ever again in 5 quick seconds.

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This year’s “Freshman Robot” was able to fool the LRI into believing that a freshman was just a very well engineered robot.

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Another example of why fast food chains are looking to utilize robotic burger flippers and not humans.

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Let’s put this one in the books, shall we?

First place goes to:

Second place goes to:

And the burn award goes to:

Which means the final scores for year 17 of the caption contest are:

Tinnittin 197
Squirrel2412 188
GaryVoshol 163
DonRotolo 158
Osby 154
EricH 148
efoote868 136
gellnick 134
cgmv123 133
Wayne Doenges 125
quin 120
Tomithy 94
rsisk 45
Karaoke 31
Amicus1 24
EricKline 24
GeeTwo 20
NatsirtD 14
Taylor 10
gixxy 8
jackoleary 8
Andy Baker 5
clonedcheese 5
AustinShalit 4
ari_2412 3
PeterR 2
fuddster 2
wgorgen 2
TheRealJamesOo 2
Emiliano6181 2
Levi_Blumer 2

As is tradition, there are some awards to hand out–and we were doing virtual award ceremonies long before Manchester. :wink:

Year 17 Champion: Tinnittin (197 points)
Year 17 Runner-Up: Squirrel2412 (188 points)

Most Wins: Tinnittin (10), Squirrel2412 (7), GaryVoshol/DonRotolo/Osby (5 each)
Most Seconds: Squirrel2412 (9), EricH (8), DonRotolo (6)
Always The Bridesmaid Award: quin (120 points without a win, 32 more points than their score last year that also won this award)

Travis Hoffman Memorial Burn Award Award: For the first time I can remember, a tie! Tinnittin, Squirrel2412, and efoote868 all scored 7 burn awards.
Jane Young Mr. Clean Award: rsisk (45 points without a burn award)

Perfect Year: GaryVoshol, EricH, efoote868, cgmv123, Wayne Doenges, and quin all entered all 52 contests. gellnick entered 50.

On to year 18!

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A big thanks to you Billfred for putting this together. Great job!

It is very amusing reading all the comments.

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I wholeheartedly agree, it’s always a pleasure seeing the various entries and having a good laugh at whatever reference or burn I’m always certain will win even though they never do.
cough @EricH cough

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I’m wondering if we don’t put together a picture book with each photo and 1st / 2nd / Burn as captions. See how Billfred’s sense of humor has evolved.

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OK, so 17 years have passed. There are students on teams today that were not even born to see Caption Contest #2. As if they could read at that age…

Yep, getting old. But the alternative is far less satisfying.

I mean, does anyone even remember Jane Young? (I certainly do!)

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Ah… memories. So punny.

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Absolutely. Online and in person.

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