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As for fun team spirit moves (I don't know of any as I was in the stands for approximately 4 of my team's matches this year), one of my favorites has to be in Minnesota 10,000 Lakes. We'd been talking with one of Wave Robotics's mentors (I believe he was the son of one of ours, if I remember correctly) after Wisconsin about plans for 10,000 lakes. Basically, he said that he thought his team had a real shot at the Spirit Award, and that they were going to cheer twice as hard as at Wisconsin. So we decided in the happy spirit of coopetition to sit with them in the stands and cheer with them... to win the spirit award ourselves, hopefully :P

Then we got to the event, did the usual bounce back cheering "We've got spirit" louder than I've ever heard it :D, and had a great time relaxing and maxin' all cool with Wave. We even incorporated them into the "What's better than robotics?" cheer, with "What's better than a shark? A land shark!" (their robot's name for the year). It was a lot of fun chanting and screaming "17!" "14!" "28!" "26!" (later with the addition of "24!" "70!").

Then they picked us and we won the regional. :D Can't say I've ever cheered louder than that. Neither of us won the Spirit Award, but we didn't care; having fun was the reward. The funny thing is that with all of this cross cheering, a few people came up to me in the pits and asked if our teams collaborated (we haven't... yet?) or agreed to pick each other pre-event or something like that. (nope, though 2826 was personally #1 on my list of robots I've seen before) We just collaborated with cheering, and it seemed to work out in the end.

It's too bad I'll never get to coach with them again. But at least I'll get to cheer. :3

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Heh, best cheer we've ever used was Palmetto 06

"MORT, Tigers, and Bears, OH MY!"

11+1251+247= awesome alliance

M-O-R-T MORT MORT MORT! is common. (we're not the most creative bunch):o Plus we like to steal from the Jets

Our cheers are weak, but having 80+ people in the stands kinda makes up for it. The only competition we get at nearby regionals in terms of loudness is MOE and team 75 haha. Can't beat MOE. Ever.;)

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11+1251+247=1509 This team needs to restart and be their own alliance.

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2265, come on <driver's name>, you can drive!
2265, <driver's name> knows how to drive!

<in a very loud and somewhat intimidating voice> B....X! (To stand for the Bronx)

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You might be able to adapt the classic RPI cheer (that's Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, for those of you who don't know). I would change the disintegrate line though - maybe suitable for hockey but not GP.

(although RPI does have a team and may use it themselves)


E to the X – DY -DX
E to the X – DX
cosine, secant, tangent, sine,
3 – point – 1 – 4 – 1 – 5 – 9
square root, cube root, log of pi,
DISINTEGRATE THEM, RPI!

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cosine, secant, tangent, sine,
3 – point – 1 – 4 – 1 – 5 – 9
square root, cube root, log of y,
16 - 7 - 6, *clap* *clap* pi!

*likes*

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RPI has a team? Why didn't anyone tell me?

Anyone got a nerdy endline that's less destruction based? If I ever find out how to join these RPI teams I might want to adapt this... :D

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(somewhat on topic)

Some friends of mine went to GMI (now Kettering). GMI was never known to have highly competitive sports teams, or so they told me. At hockey and basketball games, when their team was getting beaten, they would give out this cheer:

That's alright
That's ok
You'll all work for us someday!

Now... I don't condone this for FIRST use, as it's not the nicest thing to say to another FIRST team. But, for that place and time, it seemed to work for them.

Andy B.

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I may be wrong and assumed too much. My nephew, who is a student there, said something about how one of the classes functions as mentors for a local team. It may be the Albany team.

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I checked today. RPI sponsors teams, there's just no RPI FIRST mentoring club or whatever. A class in the spring mentors one team, I think, and that's it. Sucks for me :(

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good ideas, dad. you couldve just told me in person, our computers are across the room from one another o.O
and i like the number chant. we discussed this before, and aside from the fact that i dont even know the numbers that far is the only problem i see

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thank you everyone! your ideas are great :) i appreciate it, and i'm sure my team will too!

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I believe that team 20 Rocketeers are sponsored by RPI. Partly because the buttons that they hand out say RPI on them.

Jeez, reading all of these cheers just keeps reminding me of how unenthusiastic our team is... oh well.:rolleyes:

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I like that one too

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I think that's a Calculus thing, it's the opposite of integration. Nothing to do with damage or disassembling things molecularly.
Maybe if we get the WWF in the arena, can we use it then?
Ingrate.

Our computers may be within sight of each other, but your listening skills are, how shall I say it*? - sub-optimal.

Dad

*I should probably say it LOUDLY.

[/end using CD to BeRATe my kids]

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Years ago, someone on the team determined that "AAAA" was the last sound you can make before you completely lose your voice.

Now here are the other "reasons":

- Most of the time no one can hear what a team is chanting, so we just go for noise.
- We were going to go through the alphabet, but we get lost after A
- The mentors have a lot to remember, so we limited the team to one letter.
- Spelling L-I-G-H-T-N-I-N-G R-O-B-O-T-I-C-S is hard. So we made the variable A = Lightning Robotics. (I made that one up right here, right now... have to use that one on the team on Wed.)

For the record... we are adding more cheers into our style guide this year.