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Originally Posted by bulbajackel
I wish more FIRST volunteers were here to comment but they prefer robot because it is the fastest way, even if a team is late getting to the field. Honestly, they do have greater priority of other people, its not the team that thinks that, its whoever created the match sequence.
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I was a student for four years, a volunteer for four (overlaps student and mentor years), and a mentor for six. I dislike yelling it because it's unnecessary, has an air of arrogance about it, and it's entirely possible to get to the field when late without yelling it or injuring people in the pits.
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Originally Posted by CLandrum3081
Sorry, but in the 10K pits, you have to yell for the person next to you to hear what you're saying. We have no choice but to yell "ROBOT". Smaller events are easier - Northern Lights, with about 40 teams, had no one yelling "ROBOT" because it wasn't necessary.
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There are a lot of people here that seemingly take it as an immutable fact of life that the competitions are horrifically loud. By no means will they ever be a library, but they are currently much louder than they need to be.
They are often so loud, that I wear normal 30 dB earplugs, and can still hear all announcements just fine. In fact, I can usually hear people's conversations just fine, because they're usually yelling to be heard over the music and announcements.
Checking the volume levels with dB meters often shows they are way over the threshold at which hearing damage occurs. And it's not because of the tools (I worked in a machine shop during college, and you can usually have a normal conversation with an indoor voice in there when all the machines were running), it's the music and announcements; they are unnecessarily loud.
This level of noise pollution is a
genuine safety issue that I believe needs to be resolved, because it is slowly causing permanent injury to long-term partipants in FRC.