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Originally Posted by Sperkowsky
2.do crowd activites. Anything from small quiz games about Frc or even showing small videos the community has been made will make a difference.
3. Play the game animation constantly. New people need to know what they are watching and being the announcer called them barrels consistently even though in the manual it says containers it really annoyed me.
4.end the blue Alliance red Alliance chant. Everyone not part of Frc I have brought also thought it was the most annoying thing and made no sense. Just please stop it. If the people want to shout their Alliance fine but when it's done 50 times every match It makes me want to get on the mic and scream purple Alliance.
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The game/quiz idea is great, and I've seen teams do it as an activity and it's very effective. But the personalization of it is usually what makes it fun (a selfie contest that involves getting shots with different teams and mascots is a lot of fun). However it might lose some of its fun if it's turned into what they do before movies in the theater, with generic quizzes playing on the scoreboard.
I don't know about your competitions, but ours plays the animation
a lot. And seeing it repeated over and over again would be super annoying. Maybe if someone created a short cut that people could go to on their phone to see the game animation and other important links. I don't know, but putting it on repeat to fill the silence seems like overkill.
If we end the blue alliance, red alliance chant, someone will make a new one that will become the adopted chant. That particular one's nice because everyone knows it, so three different teams could be cheering simultaneously and it becomes a group effort. In all honesty, I'd like to see an end to the super long, confusing chants that no one can ever tell what's being said because it just seems like extra noise. Yes, the repetition should stop because hearing it over and over again is awful.
This could be solved by someone making generic cheers that everyone could adopt, and more of them so that if someone wants to chant they have a myriad of things already available, and wouldn't always default to red alliance.
But overall, I don't think the dances and songs have to stop. Sports games do them, and that's basically what we're emulating. Reiterating my previous point, more variety in the songs, dances, and games might make them more bearable for people who aren't into them and more enthusing for people who are.