CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #917

[Billfred]

It’s Tuesday Wednesday. You know what that means.

The scores after the last round:

jaredhk	134
GaryVoshol	110
DonRotolo	107
quin	104
EricH	94
Osby	92
gellnick	90
Wayne Doenges	76
cgmv123	69
efoote868	55
GeeTwo	47
Squirrel2412	32
Amicus1	15
Tinnittin	11
JoeXIII_007	10
JT.Roschak	10
rsisk	10
TheRealJamesOo	8
wgorgen	4
NatsirtD	4
Peter_Matteson	3
Tomithy	2
gixxy	2
clonedcheese	2
Karaoke	2
Tyler_Olds	2

The rules, for the newbies.

And the picture:

pic: Team 639 Torque Tester

[6b170dbb356a7540c1e2efd1d141ccec_l.jpg] This is a pic of the torque tester that Mr Simpson, Nick S., Greg, Steve, and I made the Sunday before the Canadian Regional. It has a digital load tester with 500lb limit with digital readout. CRT was by far the strongest robot and I forget our numbers. Note also that the torque tester is in the back pit area by the machine shop where 639, 188, and 5 other teams were put due to the lack of space. We got shafted. The laptop was running a 3min movie tha…

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

Go!

[EricH]

Here we see the inspiration for Nerd Sniping.

[GaryVoshol]

“Test Your Torque”

aka “We want to see if we can push your robot around on the field.”

[jaredhk]

Chief Inspectors: “We’re all about trying to maintain consistency across events”

Your local LRI: “I have a hunch that robots at this event aren’t torque-y enough. Let’s build a contraption to test them all before we let them go to practice matches.”

[Osby]

… “CRT was by far the strongest robot and I forget our numbers.”…

CRT watched closely the other teams. The results were the main factor on their DNP list.

[DonRotolo]

The other teams were pretty torqued about 639’s surprise test. Nobody had studied for it, so most teams failed.

[Wayne_Doenges]

Hurry, hurry, hurry, step right up and test you torque!
If you score the highest value, you win this laptop.
If you score the lowest, you have our condolences.

[cgmv123]

Nothing like a shooting gallery for testing.

[gellnick]

The 2025 game, Programmer Rush, has been revealed. In autonomous, robots must test their torque to prove their worthiness to be programmed. When teleoperated period starts, robots stack totes and plywood to create a table for the programmers, and in the endgame, must set up a laptop with all the required software for the next game!

[quin]

“Wait, why are we building things to test when we can just build it so it works”

[GeeTwo]

Test Your Torque Traction

FTFY.

[Billfred]

Let’s get judgy!

First place goes to:

@DonRotolo

The other teams were pretty torqued about 639’s surprise test. Nobody had studied for it, so most teams failed.

Second place goes to:

@gellnick

The 2025 game, Programmer Rush, has been revealed. In autonomous, robots must test their torque to prove their worthiness to be programmed. When teleoperated period starts, robots stack totes and plywood to create a table for the programmers, and in the endgame, must set up a laptop with all the required software for the next game!

And the burn award goes to:

@GaryVoshol

“Test Your Torque”

aka “We want to see if we can push your robot around on the field.”

Which means the scores are:

jaredhk	136
DonRotolo	117
GaryVoshol	113
quin	106
EricH	96
gellnick	95
Osby	94
Wayne Doenges	78
cgmv123	71
efoote868	55
GeeTwo	49
Squirrel2412	32
Amicus1	15
Tinnittin	11
JoeXIII_007	10
JT.Roschak	10
rsisk	10
TheRealJamesOo	8
wgorgen	4
NatsirtD	4
Peter_Matteson	3
Tomithy	2
gixxy	2
clonedcheese	2
Karaoke	2
Tyler_Olds	2

Onward!

[DonRotolo]

Oblivious to the field conditions, they did not respond to the volunteer’s call for more bins to carry all those bins.

[Wayne_Doenges]

Don, I think you posted this in the wrong Caption Contest. Shouldn’t it be #918?

[DonRotolo]

Hmm. Speaking of oblivious…