[EricH]

Originally Posted by Carolyn_Grace

I hear this a lot, "I don't want to hear any booing..." ...In my 9 years of FIRST, I don't think I have ever heard a crowd "Boo" a team for turning down someone. I *have* heard "OOoooo" and personally, I don't think there's anything wrong with that. It amps the excitement up and gets people interested in alliance selections.

Hmm... I wonder why the MCs in a fair number of events are so quick to translate an "oooo" into a "booo" and call attention to it as a "booo" then. This isn't a minor thing either--I've heard it on the webcasts from multiple events.

The MCs have been doing a really good job with trying to tamp that down, with reminders that every team has the right to decline, and the odd "Hey! No booing! They can do that!"