[Alan Anderson]

In Kokomo this weekend I twice gently corrected two people who inappropriately shouted ROBOT. One was in his team's pit as their robot departed; another was actually sitting up on a set of bleachers against the wall. I told each of them that people shouldn't be warning others of an oncoming robot unless they are walking in front of that robot, because otherwise they are taking attention away from where it needs to be.

A few people on one team did consistently call out ROBOT in a loud-but-not-yelling voice as their robot was in transit, which was mildly annoying. However, they were one of the few teams that consistently had a vanguard clearing the way for their cart, and it didn't seem to be a contagious yell, so I didn't make an effort to find the source and ask them to take it down another notch.