Yall managed to break a rack gear? Impressive.
There was a cap bot in South Florida (82987A) that did well - they were 6th place at South Florida States, and made it to semifinals as the 5th alliance captain, where they lost to two of the best teams in the state (7121E and 4411S).
We were using the same one for the whole season and the teeth wore down to the point that it slip continuously.
Working on catapult.
Me: hey can you guys make a slipgear?
Teammates: sure thing
Later…
Me: can I get that slipgear?
Teammates: hands me a gear in the approximate shape of the apple logo.
Me: …
Teammates: you need more teeth off?
I have nightmares of cutting slipgears. I cut about 16 of them in 30 days.
Me and the team watching old videos of wallbots.
Me: “woah cool check this out!”
Wallbot: expands in a second dramatically
Teammate: “when I grow a beard thats how I want it to deploy”
Everyone else just looks at him.
if it aint broke dont fix it
clang
robot breaks and we have to redo it
me night before states: wow I hope nothing breaks mr T
catapult:
Judges: Describe your team in two words.
Me: We are rebels.
that’s three… oh, I see what you did! 
Whenever we get a new member:
“Here’s all you need to know, white spacers are op, but pop rivets are a manifestation of satan”
.>be me
.>be overconfident scrub
.>goes to state
.>encounters problem
.>commits the big oof
.>be me
.>use flywheel because flywheel gang
.>big brain and use 2 motor drive and 1 motor flywheel
.>make it to states on design award
.>go to state with a 1 motor flywheel
.> shoot flag
.> ball bounces off flag and flag turns the opposite way even more
.>commit hp less than 0
Thursday before Easter holidays:
Me to our mentors: “I was able to reproduce my fellow coder’s driving code, so we don’t need to get it of him!”
Downloading my code, testing it.
Code:
Today: Asking in vex forum for help…
Programmer: (insert name) did you give the notebook that new firmware update?
“look how frictionless this roller is”
“then why is it stopping”
“because gravity”
“The auton should work now”
Auton: Doesn’t work
“It’s fine we’re probably gonna have to tune it at worlds anyway”
“Trust me these batteries are charged”
“Why is the motor controller smoking”
“What happens if you have a EMP in your pocket?”
“Wait… is there a collar on that?” (referring to the claw)
“Did our v5 come… oh, I should of guessed”
“This battery smells like fire”
“MOTOR SCREECHING”
“Hey come check out our drive shafts”
Walks up to a clawbot “What does your autonomous do?.. Oh ok”
“The autonomous is fine… let me toggle this flaaaaa autonomous starts”
“If it goes onto the center platform, we win… robot goes up onto center platform and then slides back down”
Me: “the pltw kids got into our parts stash…”
Teammate: “what’s left”
Me: “nothing”
Teammate: “nothing?!”
Me: “they even took the hinges, because they had 3rd party keps nuts on them.”
Me “don’t let this beautiful thread die”