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Originally Posted by XaulZan11
This was one of my first thoughts as well (after thinking about costumes for drive teams, refs, field reset...). At least those complaining about them have another avenue attempt to gain a competitive advantage.
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I'd be amazed if they don't ban this. I imagine they'll have an update that it can only be purely decorative.
I think giving teams a better opportunity to brand themselves in the area of the field your average spectator would look for your team is great. However, the odds that many teams don't make very quality/professional looking ones will give it somewhat of a school project kind of feel. Add the theme part of it being like a medieval banner and it could turn prospective high school students interested in the program away.
As far as those saying if you don't like it, don't do it; that just doesn't make sense. Good teams aren't going to want to miss out on branding their team and standing out for having a better looking more professional banner.
I think a better idea especially in years to come would be to have a sign area that can be at the top of your drive station glass that can have your name and logo, similar looking to an end zone in football, etc. Simpler, and it could even be a standardized template that FIRST so that the quality of them from team to team doesn't differ much.