After attending champs and being on the floor for Opening Ceremonies, all of Practice, and Qual matches along with Newton Elims I can now say the Paper airplanes have to chill. During field cleanup Friday morning I decided to count how many airplanes I threw out. (42 for anyone that cares). Some of these planes were not even planes I found cups with hollowed out fronts, pieces of paper folded in half, and some crappy oragami slightly resembling planes.
They are fun clearly. I was tempted to throw and few down but didn't. (I did throw one from the floor up but does that count
But, they make us look like a bunch of compulsive immature kids.
I want paper airplanes to stay but not like this. There should be one sanctioned time where everyone can get it out of their system. It could look really cool and they can make safety goggles 'Mandatory'. Everyone writes their names and team # on their plane and the plane that reaches the farthest gets the member a prize. It would be a fun time killer. Definitely more fun then yet another speech talking about how inspired we all are and how great FIRST is.