Jargon

These are some shortened words and other expressions used in the community.

Shinies: Shiny Hubs

Grannies: Slipperbottoms

RADs: Reversible angle motors

Black or Black Batt: Supervolt batteries

Nifty: 6V Nifty batteries

Ants: Ant Batteries

Mags: Magmotors

Pinks: Small battery packs

Razors: Razor tips

Irons: Iron spikes

Stock: Everything related to the original game or the original game. Stock AI are the robots that come with the game. Stock components are the components that come with the game.

SFTW: A Spinner from the West entry or SFTW itself. A SFTW entry is usually thought to be the worst or one of the worst bots in any tournament. Most of the time it will fail, but some have proven to be worthy (notably Insult to Injury V)

Killer: Any robot that is not only well built, but fights really, really well.

Builder's block: State of mind (most likely lack of creativity or motivation) resulting in a builder stopping building for a while. Usually temporary.

DSL: Anything related to the DSL-TC mod itself.

DSA: Double strength aluminium armor

HS: Horizontal spinner

VS: Vertical Spinner

FS: Face Spinner

SnS: Sit and Spinner

Plow: Snowplows or Steelyard Dog plows

HPZ: High Power Z-tek

AW: Antweight

BW: Beetleweight

LW: Lightweight

MW: Middleweight