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I doubt it..

FIRST wouldn't be FIRST without the macarena, electric slide, chicken dance, cotton eye joe, and countless other classics.

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or that classic, "who let the dogs out?"

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FIRST Field music isn't likely to end because the volume can be controlled by FIRST. Also, I'm sure FIRST realizes that it's very important to keeping the game upbeat. I think FIRST just disagrees that noisemakers and pit audio systems keep the game upbeat. Or, more likely, FIRST thinks the problems noisemakers and audio systems make outweigh their benefits.

Also, should someone warn all the Walgreens and other stores in Atlanta to stock extra sore throat lozenges?

EDIT: Cotton-eyed Joe!?! I've always wanted them to play that at LSR, but how would you have the room to dance it in the stands?

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Team spirit is not all about the tools/noise makers. Last year our team won the National team spirit award and the Arizona team spirit award.

The Tigertrons didn't have any sort of noise makers. Consider other aspects of the award buy making signs, mascots, cheers, and how you interact with other teams.

Its also not a bad idea to cheer for other teams....

Bad Brad

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Bingo!
FIRST wants to see if you're cheering, not only when you are on the field or doing well but for other teams and when you are not doing so well. They want to reward your FIRST spirit not just your TEAM spirit.

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Seriously The Sprit Team spent every Saturday making labels to put over the bottles and putting popcorn in them, and I help them. :mad:

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Yeah cause we put popcorn kernels in ours.

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Well even if we don't have nosie makers we still have our voices, which are louder than any noisemarkers.

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not true. we had a 120db air horn (with last years compresser) on our robot cart but we had to take it off :( because our coach didnt want us to get introuble at vcu...

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I don't know, they could count popcorn kernels as food and disallow it. You would have to buy the arenas popcorn from their concession stand for a high price and use any kernel left in the bottom of the bag.


It doesn't seem right but they have had some pretty tough rules on outside food and beverages.

As long as the noisemakers aren't excessive they should be fine.

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That's kinda scary, 120-130 dB is the threshold of pain. So I can't really blame your coach for making you take that off. Deafening other FIRSTers is frowned upon after all.

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That's stupid.

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When we went to the Kettering Kickoff in sept. I had to go out the next day and get cough drops because I was screaming so much. I have to remeber to go out and buy some before our first out of state regonial.



Has anybody else had this problem.

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Lets narrow the field a bit and instead ask "who hasn't gotten a sore throat from cheering too much?" :D

And I'm assuming ngreen's post about popcorn was meant to be facetious, since it IS kinda silly.

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well team 230 has worked their butts off this year for spirit..and they desided to bring me back hehe! im the viking mascot and im pumped up for atlanta...but this year we have some noisemakers (but of course they have been banned..but obviously nobody listend to that rule at the UTC Regional and its very disappointing after all the hard work :mad: ) but we also have some cheers we came up with....