Re: Music at the competitions
 

if it swears, the DJ should have some general idea of what he/she is playing, and shouldnt be playing those kinds of songs at all, eliminating the problem.

Re: Music at the competitions
 

And on that note, I think that there should be plenty of songs played that you can dance to. I know after a while you get tired of hearing The YMCA or the Cha-Cha slide, but they're upbeat songs that are easy to get the crowd involved. I think people would rather hear those again, then a song with negative connotations.

Apart from eating lunch on Friday and when the pits were closed for Opening ceremonies, I wasn't in the stands for more than a moment at a time. So right before awards at GVSU, when they were playing The YMCA, I had a blast dancing to it.

Re: Music at the competitions
 

I didnt really like the dancing songs because our team was sitting next to 904 and 2771 and they took up the whole isle way to go to the pits and i didnt want to get kicked by them when they were dancing to "cotton eye joe"

Re: Music at the competitions
 

I think the competitions should have a designated dance area complete with a disco ball, lights, and a fog machine. It gives teams the ability to still have the team spirit and dancing freedom with out the inconvienence of hitting and blocking people trying to get back and forth to the pits that are trying to work on the robots and watch the competition.

Re: Music at the competitions
 

It was not a mistake.. FIRST is very strict on their playlist rules.... there are 2 playlists... a main list for qualifying matches and a finals list.... I was volunteering at the Hawaii regional this year and the DJ showed up late so they asked me to DJ in his place.. I was given about a 5 page list and even from that list i couldnt play some of the songs due to the rules i was given.

"no cussing, no violence, suggestive material... if you have to think about playing it, then dont play it..."

Re: Music at the competitions
 

As the DJ at West Michigan. The song that was bad was on the "FIRST Approved CD's, I have no idea how it got on there but it was.

If you took the time to come up and ask for a song, I would hand you a list of FIRST approved songs and if your song was not on there I could not play it. I was given a small selection so I was doing the best I could do, My apologies that a five year old heard 30 seconds of a really bad song that somehow made it on the CD


In my defense I can not hear the tracks that are playing, I have the monitor turned down in respect of the people on the field and all the sound is directed out.

Probably good to keep in mind that I am a Volunteer, not a payed DJ.



Corey Oostveen

Re: Music at the competitions
 

Impossible!!!!

Each venue is different in size. your lucky if the regional committee can make space for a small sized mascot pit.

As far as the playlists are concerned, it doesn't bother me to hear ANY song. We live in an age where there is no such thing as "virgin ears". Yea you could get away with not playing songs that contain cuss words nearly 7 - 8 years ago but times have changed. Artists are doing their best to come out with both PG songs AND Explicit versions. Just about every song has at least one bad word in it in almost every genre and I doubt FIRST will go that extent in banning all those songs b/c what you'll end up with is the same song playing 20 times over. You also have to keep in mind that someone at FIRST HQ doesn't really sit there and listens to EVERY song that's on the market and if they do then I want to copy their Hard Drive.

In short I'm not saying bend over and take it, just saying that in this day and age this is what where left with as for right now and since I grew up listening to all genres I myself don't find a problem with what is played at the events.

Re: Music at the competitions
 

Here is the official playlist for this past season. Thank you Marian Murphy at FIRST for sending it to me. There are 572 songs on it (577 if you count duplicates, 2 titles but same artist and song)