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Re: New Competition Rules
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Originally Posted by SwaDan
What does everyone think of the new competition rules in Sec 10 of the manual?

1) FIRST wants everyone (especially the mascots) to stay hydrated, but you can't bring your own water, forcing everyone to buy bottled water at the concession stands?

2) No MOEsticks, shakers, banging on things, rattles, or other noisemakers of any kind?

3) No drum corps, no Speaker-enhanced carts, and no air horns (which were already illegal).

4) Teams may not hand out candy to other teams (like Fireballs, Chicklets, gummies, or Peeps)?

5) No banners except for at your Pit station?

6) No machining except at the specified machining location, which MAY OR MAY NOT be located at the competition?

7) No saving seats? (Teams may potentially not be able to sit together)

8) No fundraising at the competitions?
This is just a natural evolution of FIRST. You can still be loud and have fun, but they are just restricting what some might find offensive noise....The bottled water thing? That just seems like business thing, FIRST has to give the arenas some kind of hope that people will buy there food, water etc., this is just a formal way (it wasn't like people weren't buying food and drinks before). Personally I'm not in favor of the machining rule, but oh well...saving seats and banners? maybe FIRST wants to see a more diversified crowd rather than just giant cheering sections dedicated to a team. This is just one more issue that isn't particularly new in concept that they have formalized....I'd just wait to see how hard all these things are enforced before getting bent out of shape.