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Originally Posted by Gregor

I'm continuously amazed at the volume people manage to get to when screaming ROBOT!!!, above and beyond the ambience of the pits.

This is part of a general trend of unsafe behavior in the pits that is a real problem. Last year there was a team that sent out large numbers of members screaming a "safety chant" for a majority of one of the regionals I attended, which was amazingly awful (and rather unsafe). I find it intensely ironic that a lot of the jockeying for the safety award is completely irrelevant, if not actively detrimental, to pit safety.

I do think a lot of it could be immediately mitigated by FIRST not blasting their sound system the whole time and promoting a culture of "no louder than necessary" in the pits. It shocks me how many people don't appreciate how important easy communication is to a safe work space.