Most commonly heard phrases in scioly

[Things2do]

"Alright, so this is a [event name] car. It is powered by [propulsion mechanism]. The car always veers [usually right, but sometimes left, depending on which car]. Here's the practice log, and leave the technical questions to me."

After the first year or two, I never had a steady partner in the vehicle events, so I gave a form of this speech while standing in line at nearly every event I went to after that.

[RiverWalker88]

"This schedule is even worse than last year's!!"
Sadly, this one is somehow always true...

"'Twould be nice to get the schedule more than a week before state..."
Or some variation of that.

"[so-and-so] is in [event] now, and [so-and-so] is in [event] and... So who in the world are we going to put in [event]?!"

[imaditi]

"it was working yesterday..."
_{build life : (}

[Efesa]

"We're definitely not gonna medal"
*medals*

[Creationist127]

A - "Where did I put my Sharpie?"
B - "What Sharpie?"
A - "The one I put right there!"
B - "I didn't take it."
A - "Then where'd it go?"
C - [from the other room] "I took it, sorry! Here's it back."
A - "Thanks." [uses it for 1 second]

[TheChiScientist]

Build Issues and More!
Where did our tools go?
Did we wire this properly?
It's not supposed to do that?!?
GET THE FIRE EXTINGUISHER!!!
Don't worry. That's normal.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! or OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
Agh! [Insert curse word of preference]!
[Insert curse word of preference]! It's not working!
Did you bring everything?
It hasn't done that before...
Well that's new...
Look out!
AHHH IT BURNS!
HOT HOT HOT!

[DatSciolyBoi]

"It's fine, we can try to superglue it back on"

ES: Gentlemen, two minutes left

*dies on the inside after a 3 second flight time*

[imaditi]

MYSTERY ARCHITECTURE

"you need to build an arch that can hold 10 pennies."

"oh [insert curse word] not again."

5 minutes later

"NO [partner name] WHAT ARE YOU DOING."
"uh cutting the tape."
"WE DO NOT WASTE THAT MUCH TAPE"

1 minute left

"[insert curse word] [insert curse word] [insert curse word] WHY WON'T IT [insert curse word] HOLD"
"THATS CAUSE YOU'RE [insert curse word] DUMB."
"THEN WHY DON'T YOU GET IT TO HOLD THE WEIGHT [insert partner name]"

10 seconds left

"[insert curse word] [insert curse word] [insert curse word] [insert curse word] [insert curse word] [insert curse word] [insert curse word] [insert curse word] [insert curse word] [insert curse word] [insert curse word] [insert curse word]"
"ITS NOT HOLDING [insert curse word] I SWORE IT HELD THE WEIGHT TWO SECONDS AGO."

[Giantpants]

"Let me see your practice log."
-My coach Brother Nigel to me at every comp in the 2019 season, checking in my vehicle that he saw me frantically piecing together the night before and that he knows won't work properly, as I hand him the practice log that I've handed him at every comp that season with no variations or edits, despite making massive changes to the vehicle after each comp in a desperate attempt to fix it

My relationship with Mousetrap Vehicle was questionable at best, but at least I got to say that I did a pure building event at one point in my life lol

[sneepity]

"where is the dam CA glue???"
"did you take it??!"
"man I'm holding the stick in the perfect place right now! Really!?"
"AAHHHH NOO IT BURNSS ITS BURNING MY SKIN OFF"
*sprays accelerator*