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Re: Does Your Drive Team Have Any Pre-Match Rituals?
GUS's ritual this year involved hopping as the team is being announced, then doing this weird thing where you lean back and wiggle your arms like noodles. Occasionally, someone does The Dab at the end.
The pre-match ritual I think is really important to the success of a drive team, no matter how silly it is. Generating some hype, unity among your drive team, building excitement, and focusing on something that isn't directly related to the match ahead are all positive things sometimes. If your hype is elaborate enough, going into that match with an early "win" in pulling off your little ritual / routine is always nice.
In a few matches this year, we had a very long wait time before they started, and out of boredom more than anything else we just generated lots of hype with the entire alliance in advance of the match. We won every one of those matches and it was even more exciting than normal - there was so much unity on the alliance.
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