Thread: Petition to end the shouting of ROBOT
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Re: Petition to end the shouting of ROBOT
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Originally Posted by Jay Money 1058 View Post
I personally the yelling of ROBOT as tradition. its not hurting anyone, and it gets the job done faster than quietly asking everyone to move. If you tried to get through the pits of GSR by quietly asking every single person to move, it would take 10 minutes to get through. Its just one of those things that makes a competition what it is.
This is FAR from a tradition. I don't ever remember teams yelling ROBOT! in 2005 and earlier when I was in high school and we had no issues moving our robot to/from the pits. This practice seemed to (wrongly) evolve while I was away from FIRST from 2006-2009.
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