an odd choice of Chairmans Award music at FLR? Dylan?!
 

Anyone else think it was a really odd choice of music, at the Finger Lakes Regional

after the chairmans award was given

to play Dylan's "Rolling Stone" ?

A balad of a teenage runaway, living on the streets, fending for herself?

"how does it feel, to be on your own
with no direction home
like a complete unknown
like a rolling stone?

.... No one ever taught you how to live out on the streets, and now your gonna have to get use to it"

is this our new 'Chairmans Award song'?

or did someone pull an Ashlee-Simpson and hit the wrong button?

it was just, well....... weird!

Re: an odd choice of Chairmans Award music at FLR? Dylan?!
 

I wasn't really paying attention to the music at that point in time. ;)

Matt

Re: an odd choice of Chairmans Award music at FLR? Dylan?!
 

I'm still trying to find a way to get FIRST to dump the Chicken Dance song. :p

Re: an odd choice of Chairmans Award music at FLR? Dylan?!
 

I suspect that it was kind of a random event that "Like a Rolling Stone" was played at that time. It's a great song, but not necessarily appropriate to go along with the chairman's award announcement.

Re: an odd choice of Chairmans Award music at FLR? Dylan?!
 

Music for awards is usually standardized across the regionals.
Or that is what I have noticed from my 4 years of FIRST anyways.

Re: an odd choice of Chairmans Award music at FLR? Dylan?!
 

I just wondered if anyone else noticed?

It was surreal, like when you are dreaming, and your radio alarm clock goes off, and for a minute you hear the music on the radio in your dream, and in your dream you realize "wait a minute, where is that music coming from?" and you wake up.

it was like that. Everyone was walking around, picking up their stuff in the bleechers, teams were finishing up crating their robots, teams heading home

and Bob was singing away

"Now you dont talk so loud
now you dont seem so proud
about having to be scrounging your next meal
How does it feel?"

I was wondering if I would wake up at home, and the whole regional was only a dream, with Dylan on my clock radio :^)

Re: an odd choice of Chairmans Award music at FLR? Dylan?!
 

*cough* What was that? *cough* :D

IRT:
The DJ was kinda disappointing... playing rather mellowing and irrelevant music. Our CEO asked him if he could play more upbeat exciting music the rest of the competition, and found out he wasnt a real DJ. He only plays on on TV.

Re: an odd choice of Chairmans Award music at FLR? Dylan?!
 

You mean like the Hookie Pokey? :rolleyes:

Re: an odd choice of Chairmans Award music at FLR? Dylan?!
 

Yeah he only played it like 50 times :D

Nah I mean more like on Thursday when he was playing things like Lil John and nearly half the song was bleeped out.

Re: an odd choice of Chairmans Award music at FLR? Dylan?!
 

I didn't mind the WBER playlist on Thursday but FIRST has this weakness for the Electric Slide, the Chicken Dance, YMCA, The Macerena and Cha Cha. There are other songs in existance. They should give them a spin once in a while.

Re: an odd choice of Chairmans Award music at FLR? Dylan?!
 

The hokie pokie? Hey now that is something Im looking forward to

the day when all the robots at the regional have their own radio frequency

and we can put 30 or 50 robots on the field during lunch break

and have THEM ALL doing the hokie pokie!

I would pay money to see that! :cO

Re: an odd choice of Chairmans Award music at FLR? Dylan?!
 

uhhhh.... no. I wouldn't.....

Re: an odd choice of Chairmans Award music at FLR? Dylan?!
 

*Agrees*

Somthing about 30 robots fitting on one field creeps me out...



The hokie pokie thing is weird too.

Re: an odd choice of Chairmans Award music at FLR? Dylan?!
 

Ok, have it your way then, but having 30 robots doing the chicken dance instead will require a little more driver skill!

Re: an odd choice of Chairmans Award music at FLR? Dylan?!
 

Pff driver skill? Let the programmers do it autonomously :D

Re: an odd choice of Chairmans Award music at FLR? Dylan?!
 

Ed, next time I will come up in the stands and bring you down to the field. I can't believe that you are so old that you couldn't join in. ;) Let's all just have some fun. It is a party you know(but no "dancing"). I found that things livened up with those songs and sort of died with the rap "music".

Re: an odd choice of Chairmans Award music at FLR? Dylan?!
 

Now I know when to take a loooooooooong bathroom break. :D

Re: an odd choice of Chairmans Award music at FLR? Dylan?!
 

It's all going to be a matter of taste in the end anyways. :D I think Koko is right, every regional no matter where it is will always have a collection of "hokey" songs that are played over and over again in an effort to bring the crowd forward; but that again is part of what makes FIRST endearing, to always see the mascots doing the YMCA and what not. I thought the playlist was fine at Rochester. I love hip hop, and was rather surprised at the amount they did play as well, it had a pretty good mix as far as I am concerned. I also heard some P.O.D in the midst of it as well.

Re: an odd choice of Chairmans Award music at FLR? Dylan?!
 

Well while we are on award-winning ideas...lets do it now...who has a tether cable?

Re: an odd choice of Chairmans Award music at FLR? Dylan?!
 

cant do the 'turn yourself around' part on a tether cable :c(

Re: an odd choice of Chairmans Award music at FLR? Dylan?!
 

Well, that's better than the Chairman's Award music picked for Team 501 at the BAE Regional. The split second after they announced the team as the winner the Verizon Wireless Arena's fire alarm siren went off and we had to evacuate the building.

Re: an odd choice of Chairmans Award music at FLR? Dylan?!
 

Ed, you pick.
1. song for mentors on field to dance to:
2. song for mascots on field to dance to:
3. song for rookies on field to dance to:

Re: an odd choice of Chairmans Award music at FLR? Dylan?!
 

It's all about knowing your crowd. At some regionals Hip-Hop is going to work, at others it isn't. I love my Hip-Hop, but the crowd didn't seem to get into it in Rochester. That being said, playing "Lose Yourself" by Eminem during the last match of the finals was absolutely perfect.

It really captures the tension and pressure felt by all the drive teams.

Re: an odd choice of Chairmans Award music at FLR? Dylan?!
 

Karthik is sooooo right.

After finals 1.3 at FLR, I asked my drive team how they felt about the perfect choice of music (Lose Yourself) for the perfect moment. One didn't like it, one didn't remember it.

The other piece that I really like during finals is the FOX sports theme. That pumps me up.

So would Battle Without Honor or Humanity from Kill Bill.

Re: an odd choice of Chairmans Award music at FLR? Dylan?!
 

Absolutely.
That song definitely had an effect. When I heard it come on, I couldn't believe it. I looked back to "our corner" and saw several other teammates going through the same thing I was.

Amazing.
John

Re: an odd choice of Chairmans Award music at FLR? Dylan?!
 

I disagree...you can do it but you shouldn't do it...and since it is suppose to be a bad idea I would say "that's what its all about." :p

Re: an odd choice of Chairmans Award music at FLR? Dylan?!
 

One year, at one of the events, they played "We are the Champions" for the chairmans award.

Re: an odd choice of Chairmans Award music at FLR? Dylan?!
 

But see, if you run out of the room every time they play the Hokey-Pokey, you would have missed the mascot dance at the Chesapeake Bay Regional! Now that was enjoyable! I particularly enjoyed watching my best friend in the Buzz mascot try to put her left and right hips in because, of course, our mascot is just really round and you don't really have hips. (also you can't reach your butt when doing the macarena. :)

Re: an odd choice of Chairmans Award music at FLR? Dylan?!
 

Our DJ up at the NYC Regional was kewl. It was his first time at the regional competition but that didn't stop him from playing nothing but the best upbeat songs during the rounds. He had like 13000 songs ( I guess that FIRST put together ) to play. He was quite honest to he made sure he played the boring stuff when there was nothing doing (LUNCH) =)