Team Shirts
 

Hey CD,

What does your team do with Team Shirts at competition? Does your team make you wear them on all Three days? Friday and Saturday? or just Saturday?

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We wear our team shirts/sweatshirts all three days. It's important to establish your image and be easily recognizable by everyone there!

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Are the shirts all the same, or are they different?

Our team has many shirts with the same color, so some on the team are proposing we only wear this year's shirt on Saturday because of some fear of BO or something like that. I want to wear our competition shirts on Friday and Saturday atleast

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We typically wear out team T-Shirts on Thursday and Friday, and wear our team Polos on Satruday

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On UPS we usually enforce wearing team shirts/hoodies all 3 days, Friday shirt should have the modern 1675 logo, and you must wear the newest team shirt on Saturday. Take off hoodies before awards ceremony to show off sponsors in case an award is won (sometimes this is forgotten in heat of the moment). Sometimes we do "Throwback Thursday" as well with old team shirts.

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This year we have a fun team shirt to wear on Thursday, another one with all our sponsors for friday, and a team polo for saturday

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Our Team Makes a fun Spirt shirt with there nickname and team number for one day ,Plain green shirts ( school color ) with fabric paint great team builder at the hotel and the team has a lot of fun with it

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Our team wears different shirts each competition day: Saturday is our season specific sponsor shirt; Friday is our generic off-season shirt; Thursday is a team shirt from previous years, or for new members, just a red shirt -- preferably with the school on it.

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Our Team wears a team T-shirt on Thursday (w/ all our sponsors on the back) and Team Polo Shirts on Friday and Saturday.

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Students are required to wear team shirt and black pants or shorts.
No exceptions.

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Ever since the first flight back from Epoc the team has had different shirts for each day. The students design new shirts each year and each shirt has a day that it must worn. They buy the shirts and get to keep them.

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BO is a valid concern - trust me. Wearing one shirt for three days will lead to a very unpleasant ride home for the people in your car or bus.

We only have one shirt design, but we give each student two shirts their rookie year for hygiene reasons. Team shirts/hoodies are required while travelling and at the events, with black pants required for competition days only.

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And I ordered plenty of extras so I don't have to wear the same shirt each day... Or I could sell them to people at school

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They are all more or less the same - same color, same logo, etc... Our sponsors change slightly year to year, so people may notice the backs are a little different depending on which year's shirt is being worn. The majority of our sponsors (especially our major sponsors) are the same every year.

Good point here - Shirts are part of the image, but everything else counts as well. On Thursday (practice day) the students all wear jeans. Friday and Saturday, however, they change to their school skirts and pink tights (it's an all-girls team from a catholic high school). Overall, it creates a very distinctive look for the team, and makes us highly memorable - something every team is looking for!

We stick to team shirts every time the team appears in public (at the state fair, doing demos, off season competitions, etc), and most often jeans.

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I agree on this point as well - the t-shirt is not, by any means, the only way to maintain an image. Idealy, the general color template for the tshirts should be the same from year to year, but the images on the shirt can change. For this year, our team forwent t-shirts in favor of jerseys (Because it's a basketball themed game). It came as a surprise to us how, at Greater Kansas City, we were the only team there to have went for the game jersey design. However, this is not our defining feature. For Metal Mustang Robotics, the defining feature of our team is the silver cowboy hats we require our team to wear.

tl;dr: Maintain a color scheme year to year, and if possible, add accessories to your "uniform" that is destinct to your team.

I wish every day was Throwback Thursday...

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Our team wears team t-shirts every day. In past years, we have had 3 different shirts - one maroon, one navy, and one black (our team colors) - but other teams found that a bit confusing.

This year, we decided to use a gray base and print our logo and our sponsors navy, maroon, and black. We have our sponsors on our backs every day (they enable us to participate in FIRST, and we believe they deserve the recognition). We also put our team number in binary on the bottoms of our shirts, just for fun :P

This year the Saturday of the Utah Regional falls on St. Patrick's Day, and in commemoration of that, we've decided wear shirts with a green logo partially made with shamrocks. I can post pictures later.

On a side note, in 2010, our school's multimedia teacher made our shirts in illustrator and accidentally left out one zero in our binary number xD Instead of 2993 (101110110001), we were 1497 (10111011001)

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I should point out that there is an exception if a team member volunteers.

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Well, yes, this is true. But for point of analogy, the volunteers have their own destinct uniform of Blue/Green/Red polo, or game t-shirt and hat, or ref shirt that makes them destinctly part of the "team" they're affiliated with.

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This year, Thursday will be our Build Season T-Shirt and Friday/Saturday will be Competition Shirts

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On our team its known throughout our team that you can wear whatever team shirt you have on Thursday(polo or pre-polo team shirt) but Firday and Saturday are all business so you have to wear the team polo. And you can usually also distinguish our drive team from the rest of the team because they wear orange dickies.

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On 1038, we wear a black team shirt on Thursday and blue and purple tie dyes on Friday and Saturday - the silk screens are identical on both versions. All traveling students and mentors get 3 shirts, the mentors and students unable to travel get 1 tie dye. On my rookie teams, we are wearing the jcpenny supplied shirts on Thursday and our team shirts Friday and Saturday... again, each member gets 3 shirts.

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Tonight's discussion in the team meeting in preparation for Bayou:

Bertucci:

"How many people ordered/have the team tee shirt?"

Show of hands.

"Bring them."

"How many people have the tie-dyed tee shirt?"

Show of hands.

"Bring them."

"How many people have the polo shirts?"

Show of hands.

"Bring them."

"How many people have the Hawaiian-style shirts?"

Show of hands.

"Bring them."

"Bring extras if you have them. We'll share."

Student: "Jane - for retro Thursday, can I wear a jacket with purple patches?"

Jane: "Yes, just nothing with spikes in the pit area."

I think we're covered.

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I voted for all three days, but we have 2 different shirts. We have Polo's that we wear practice day, and then we have Jersey's we wear Friday and Saturday.

I will try and find some pictures to post of both versions. Also the team members must pay for their own shirts, and they do get expensive. Since they are not just normal T-Shirts. However we look great in our Bright Orange jersey's!

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In the past on 781, we got two shirts per year. Thursday you could wear a previous year's shirt, and Friday and Saturday were the current year's shirt. We had the same shirt design (except for different sponsors) for my Grade 10-12 years, so after a while most everyone wore the green shirts every day of the event.

Edit: Last year when we went to champs we ordered everyone an additional shirt.

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On MARS the current year's t-shirt design is worn on Thursdays and Fridays and there are no restrictions on pants. On Saturday everyone is required to wear black pants, a white dress shirt, and a standard bright red tie (tucked safely into the shirt while in the pits ::safety:: ). Red fedoras and red/white knee-high socks are pretty standard but are not required. All in all it gives the team a very distinctive and professional/memorable "look."

-Luke

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We do 3 new shirts every year, each a different color and design, with the same list of mentors, sponsors, and such on the back.

We're pretty identifiable no matter what shirts we wear though.

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We do throwbacks on Thursday because we don't want to have everyone stressing over the uniform on day 1. It can be the T-Shirt we make available for purchase, or a previous shirt we don't use anymore. This year, we dumped jerseys after a 1-year stint and are going to new polos for Friday and Saturday. We design them to be buttoned over another shirt so we don't get unmentionable odors on Saturday. Those are sponsor-supplied.

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Here at team 88 each year all of our student get 3 team shirts. (One for each day). Our standard home the dye, with our logo screened on.

Over 4 years each student accumulates quite a few shirts.

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On 176, we host the Week 0 event Suffield Shakedown Scrimmage, for which we have shirts made every year. After scrimmage, these shirts become our Thursday shirts at competitions. They're not our team colors, and they don't prominently display our logo. Students also have the option of wearing throwback shirts or current team shirts.

On Friday and Saturday, students wear current year team shirts, and mentors wear current year polo shirts.

In previous years, we've had issues with students being unrecognizable because they wear team hoodies instead of shirts. Our shirts are either royal blue or bright red (depending on the year) and the hoodies are dark blue (almost black). This year we're enforcing a rule that students must take off their hoodies inside the venue so we are easy to spot.

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We require some version of Kauaibots shirt (current or an older one, T-shirt or polo - they're all purple with our team name and number, many have sponsors on the back and some have decoration on front; some students have 'blinged' theirw with silver glitter highlights on the flowers or tools) every day. We have to keep up our tradition of being "the purple wave"!

In past years we have provided every traveler (student or mentor) with three new shirts each year. We are on a tight budget this year so new folks will get two new shirts and veterans will get either one or none, I can't remember what they said.

Me, I prefer the polos so I bought a couple of extra ones and I'll wear those all three days. We do ask our team to wear team gear while traveling, we get some notice on the inter-island flights and have sparked some great conversations ("What's FIRST Robotics?" "Where are you all going?").

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Recently we have had 3 different shirts. On Thursday we had the teams wear the jcp shirt that we added our logo to. On Friday we had the team wear our purple team shirt. Then on Saturday we have them wear either the jcp shirt or our team shirt(depends on the year) under our pit shirts.

Although we do not require everyone to wear the pit shirts because we do not order them for every new student, every year anymore due to high costs. So we check them out on Saturday for them to wear if we have a size that fits them. Most of the girls opt out of wearing them because the sizes we currently have cater to people who wear larges and above.

After we competed on Saturday the kids took a vote to order new ones in their correct sizes and try to get women cut pit shirts(as long as they look the same).

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On both of my teams, we've done team shirts on both days. Ideally, polos on Saturday.

Just a personal request: Headgear

If you're going to make headgear part of your team image, make sure it's comfortable, especially when wearing it all day. I was on a team that had everyone in the pits wearing hard hats. By the end of the day, I hated that blasted thing. They're big, bulky, and I hit my head more often with them on. Think about comfort not just image.

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Advice from another team that wears hats as part of our image (Though not exactly as heavy duty as a hard hat): Take it off and store it somewhere when you're working on the robot in the pit. The space is already limited as it is, and when you've got a wide brimmed cowboy hat, by golly it helps a lot to take it off so you can get a few people looking at the same part.

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We actually have three team shirts: a season-specific shirt based on the Robot's name, the basic Robonauts t-shirt, and the Robonauts polo. We used to wear jeans with the first two and khakis with the last, but we're changing to just jeans.

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My team wears our JCPenny shirts on Thursday, since it is "Sponsor Appreciation Day", and our team shirts on Friday and Saturday.

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I've been a proponent of "Throwback Thursday" for a long time and encourage team participation for every one but our pit crew member who is designated to wear the "To-do list tee-shirt".

FYI
The to-do list tee is a shirt Carne and I, mentor pit leads, come up with a couple days before the regional to list everything we need to accomplish on pit day then put on our team's MVPS (most valuble pit student). The theory is we'd loose a paper list but we haven't lost a student yet.

Friday & Saturday kids usually wear that year's t-shirt and mentors usually wear team polos, kids wear polos pn Saturday if they have them.

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I am happy to hear the new rule about Hoodies. It is important that teams be recognized at a whole unit, in unison. Teams are known by their colors, which means consistency every year. This means no dramatic colors changes from year-to-year. I always can recognize a team by its colors & I do look for those colors in the stands This also counts when teams are considered for team spirit & drive team support. I look forward to all those crazy colors in the stands at competitions!