[Karibou]

I was walking our robot back to our pit from inspection today, and was told by a volunteer to "announce my robot," when there was nobody in front of me for at least 30 feet. I politely told her that there was no need, since there wasn't anyone in the way. The response that I got was mo more than "well, you should anyways", and it certainly wasn't near the polite tone I had respoded with before. I was also told to do the same by a team about three feet away from my pit on the way TO inspection: along the lines of "why aren't you yelling?" I could see a reason to mention my robot if the pits were heavily congested, but I found that simply saying "excuse me, can we get our bot through" was enough to get past the few people in our way as we turned a corner.