Put your most memorable team quotes here!

“no”

“Finally, you wont spend half of practice on vex forums” - My team after forums shut down

“what pressure would create a bomb just curious”

“It worked well… until it didn’t.”

“Hey William, have you ever tried crack?”

“as they say at NASA ‘eh good enough’”

“i am a perfectly sane and reasonable human”

“its probably going to work dont worry about it”

“We aren’t staying late today” (we stayed late that day)

“I don’t care that you’re 6’ 2”, I want FLEX WHEELS!"
- me when VexForum was down, and I was search the Vex Discord for flex wheel insert tips

“Don’t stand there please Anders” -Me

Ander stands there

“Ok, your fault” -Me

shoots with a 3 rubber extremely tight weight projectile from our endgame

“Ouch” -Anders

programer we should use a flywheel to shoot sharpened c channels.
Everyone: visible concern
Programer just kidding god take a joke

Me: Thinks its a good idea to throw a screwdriver to the kid on our team who can’t catch to save his (or our controllers, or his phones) life.

Some favourites from my team:

“Just because our tracking doesn’t work doesn’t mean we have to tell them that”

“So much for coding it on the way to the competition, I coded it AT the competition”

Me: says 10 digits of pi
Programmer: okay that may be enough to land a rocket on the moon but it’s not enough to move the robot a foot over

“This battery tastes low”

Robot starts drifting in donuts
Programmer: The code added a very minor, negligible amount of drift I’d say, it won’t be noticeable in tournament settings

“Anything not explicitly illegal is legal”

“I’m going to go put a pencil in the flywheel”

One of my teammates whenever we wanted to show off our flywheel he would throw a screw in it and every time he got yelled at for it he finally stopped when it hit a kid in the head

“It should work, I think” is essentially our team motto at this point

And then there are these gems:

“It’s janky but it works”
“This is the worst idea ever, I love it”
“I hate it when you have good ideas”
And finally “oh yeah the auton works” (it did not work)

Me: Explaining what we are doing this meeting in detail.

Teammate: so what are we doing today?

It’s not my team’s quote, but I think it is a pretty good quote:

At the airport at 3am (going to worlds):

“What if… if… I don’t drive… the robot… When I don’t (incomprehensible) robot… eats gummy bears”

“it is time to offer a blood sacrifice to the robot”

“this tournament is going to go horrible”

Goes 6-0, 2nd seed, makes it to finals, and wins MS excellence

Minutes after going 6-0, 1st seed, undefeated, and triple crowning in the tournament.

“Lets rebuild.”

“bleeding blue slug on a french fry that a blue popsicle killed with a sentient purple flag” - my teammate describing my drawing of a potential expansion mechanism (I color coded it)

Happy Birthday!!! Hope its filled with Vex Blessed moments!

The best part of that is you responded to a deleted post

Thanks

happy birthday

I mean this is true

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday

I didn’t expand early I had a cracked stop time

“Why can’t we just build something that both works and looks somewhat presentable?” - Me to my teammate who just finished a very scuffed intake that somehow works

“Gosh you guys really suck” - The notebooker on my team the Monday after we finished 6th in qualification matches, won excellence, and lost a close finals match in a tournament he decided to skip

From functionality comes elegance.

Teammate: “I need a picture of that for the notebook”
Me: “You mean for cursed images?”
Teammate: “Same difference”

When the autom

“I’ve arrived I will now wreak havoc”
-Team mate

We have an air pump that you’re not allowed to “dry fire” (as it builds up pressure in the hose.) This led to an interesting situation at a regional competition:

“Ah frick—” Teammate after he accidentally dry fires the air pump.

two minutes later

“yo look this is hilarious” said the same teammate dry firing the air pump to make a fart-like sound.

two seconds later

“sorry sir it was an accident sir,” said the same teammate yet again, after he gets scolded by the mentor for dry firing the air pump.

“Hey I can’t come to the tournament today, I just ate a whole bag of haribo sugar free gummy bears…”

me, the lead engineer: “Sir, do you think we can do 10 string expansion??”

mentor: “uhh… it’s viable—”

me, the lead engineer: “ten string expansion it is then!”

Tim: “I want to cook the rice”
@7996B: “NO DON’T COOK THE RICE”

Me: “I want to cook the flywheel”
My team: “No food in the la- wait WHAT?”

“It’s not all men are created equal, it’s all people are created equal” - one of the kids I mentor

except for the French ofc

“I think the notebooker escaped its cage!”

“Don’t forget to feed the notebooker.”

“Did you give the notebooker its sleep medication?”

“Hmm, the notebooker’s hourly page rate is slipping this week. Try increasing its caffeine dosage.”

“State is this week, so we’re gonna need to overclock this thing” slaps notebooker’s cage

“Hey how’s your team’s notebooker?” “Oh, it’s alright. It’s a 3rd generation model so it gets about 12 pages per day per gram of caffeine.”

-The Notebookers

7996D:
“but if the notebook is good…”
“that is an untrue statement”

“I did a thing…”
“What did you do?”
“A thing!”
“What thing?”
…Looks at a janky intake mount…
“Oh, that thing…”

ours is attached with 4 zipties.

Our bot from around 6 months also had the same arrangement.

… The current one is attached with 2 screws and 2 zipties… a mix of the two methods

Hopefully will be changing it soon though.

I person our sister team: “Why is your robot 80% zipties?”
Me: “Shut up, it works.”

Not me with field control and monitors held together by zipties sometimes

Dan Mantz walks on stage
“That man looks like a gerbil”

“if this is your robot…”
draws rectangle

“No, you can’t cut up our only flex wheel.”

“My favorite measuring implement…A MALLET!”

PXL_20230502_1857198574080×3072 3.19 MB

It’s the best fitting place for a fine-adjustment tool, don’t you think?

Team-mate: Goofy ahh builder makes bendy ahh drive train.
Me: Goofy ahh plane makes bendy ahh drive train.

We got some really good ones and I am going to spread them out over the next few days

“What do spleens do?” - Teammate out of the blue

“Just because something works doesn’t mean it should” -Me

PM me if you want to hear the weirder ones

“and they sacrificed THE CALIBRATIONNN!!!”

we would say this every time during pre-worlds auton testing if we forgot to give time for the inertial to calibrate. which was usually pretty obvious cuz the robot would just spin in circles not doing anything useful

Day two

“I’m going to boil your sinuses in Pepsi!” -Teammate

“I don’t want your love, I want you eggs.” -Teammate to their partner during breakfast

Teammate holding a soldering iron “ Dylan ready for your lobotomy”
Me- “That’s not a lobotomy, that’s death”

My team needs help

Final Day

“Go through gosh darn it you… SON OF A BISCUIT” - Me trying to stick a LS axle through a sprocket .

“What are the odds the brain white-screened right as we were about to go on” “Even money considering last week” “Yep even money”

“THERE’S NO WAY OUT IT LIKE HOTEL CALIFORNIA” -Mentor during worlds

“ How are we supposed to find anything in this mess” “I know where everything is so we are good” “ That’s not the point of organizing”

wow I have an entire note pad on all of them here are the best

Racons are always crippled

The bathroom music is scaring me

I am running off hopes dream a crunch bar cheese and code red Mountain Dew

I forbid timmie to live

The math starts to break when people who don’t intended to blow up planes bring bombs

Fire plus fire equals bigger fire

“It should work theoretically”

-the person who build a robot with no screws, just zipties

“We ripped apart the robot”

-One of the seniors on my team this season via email, while I’m out of State

What happened while I was gone?!

“if you stick the thing in the thing then you have a robot”

insert strange look from the coach

This happened today at my last day of summer practice:

Me and one of my other freshman teammates celebrating after we finally got our drivetrain to go over the center barrier through the second iteration: “Yay! Let’s go! It works!”

Goes over to one of our senior teammates and tells him that we fixed the problem: “Okay!” (nods of approval-he’s usually a quiet person so really no surprise.)

Goes over to another senior teammate, the same one who said that he ripped apart the robot: “Nah, let’s just rip it apart, that would be a much better option.”

My mind: NOOOOOOO!!! (With more O’s and exclamation marks, of course) We just solved the issue!

Coach: “I give you full permission to bring him back to his senses.”

“Publix is a government conspiracy” - Teammate

“I’m gonna do something stupid but it’ll work.”
Proceeds to get up and walk towards the power saw

-Member from one of our sister teams

(Me, announcing to a teammate)
“I’m about to do something dangerous, wanna help?”

“Sure why not”

I grab the Angle Grinder and the entire intake

“Master has given Dobby a Glock”

-Same sister team member as before

“The more you learn, the more you Lamborghini”

“I bet I know more about the civil war than you.”

“Oh yeah? What was the invasion of North Africa called?”

-Regular argument between one member of my team and one member from another team

SkillsUSA (Our parent organization): “No limits!”

Our publicist: “Engi-nearing our limits”

some of the more sane quotes from my team:

my teammate when our sibling team tried to take some parts: “This has turned into a communism, we need to rebel, we need to rebel!” – he was talking to our mentor…

the same teammate: “That’s, like, eternal suffering for 20 bucks.”

we are also at the point that our main coder, main builder, and foundation of our team is not allowed to touch our controller without supervision because she’s broken our robot/nearly driven it off the table far too many times.

Until it’s screwed it’s for all to use.

I was helping out my sister’s middle school team at States when this happened. Funniest part of my day by far.

5th graders walk up to their mentor, who is a high schooler that I sort of know
Mentor: Do you have anything you need to fix before your next match?
5th grader: The robot wasn’t working, but then [kid’s name] touched it with his hand and it started working again
Mentor: I really don’t think that’s what happened.
5th grader: But it was!

5th graders walk away laughing and disappear to lord-knows-where. Mentor looks confused.

“I am judge, jury, and executioner. I am the parts whisperer.”

-Me, after being the only one to organize our parts room and everyone messes up the organization

If you yeat the stumpa in the Ding-a-Ling and wangle them around it will work - teammate telling me how to wire up a motor

what is that; a robot or a pretzel with a brain?

If in doubt; SCREW IT TIGHTER

Did you just cut the Omni wheel in 1/2?
- Yeah I thought it would roll better with a smaller surface area

“A square triangle brace”

i know it’s been awhile, but i wanted to add in some quotes from my team for the past season.

the middle schoolers i mentor decided at states that the word drivetrain now meant idiot and spent the rest of the day calling each other drivetrains.

one of the middle school girls told me that she wanted to be captain next year so “she can boss all the boys around”

My sister team’s driver is very proud of this nickname: “that crazy good driver who has issues”

in interview: “arachne is our robot, she is now over one year old and has thankfully started outgrowing her biting phase”

my friend had fake hundred dollar bills at comp. she went up to a kid from another team.
“Is it your birthday?”
“No”
“Is it close to your birthday?”
“Not really”
“Well, happy birthday nonetheless! Here you go, don’t go spending it all in one place.” (she hands the kid the hundred dollar bill and skips away laughing.

when i tried to give a kid a fake dollar bill using the above routine: “That’s FAKE! I don’t want it because it’s FAKE!”

not really a quote, but my teammate and i went around to teams asking them to take a picture with our dobby squishmallow mascot for our instagram. the looks of confusion were 100% the best part, but most people were willing to take a picture.