Well, I see some people are upset about not getting to use noisemakers. I really feel that if you want to get "Spirit" award or get noticed... do it yourself. That's one lesson I've learned from ComBBAT. Yes, I know the MOE clap, we all do... and yea, I will admit I will miss it. But... you still have hands. I know people can be drowned in our "Who dat BBAT? COMBBAT!" chant.. even though we have fewer people on our team than most teams have.
If your team really has the emotion and the spirit, you can be just as powerful without noisemakers. I know my team has, we've avoided the temptation to use noisemakers on many occasions... but you can still hear us cheering. I agree this will help the pit announcements. If teams want to cheer, they still can because that's not going to last too awful long. But with those speaker carts and such, those can cause quite a disruption.
I really hope to see that this will push teams to show their true spirit, and not need to use the assistance of noisemakers which make it easy. I know that after a competition I am on menthol-lyptus cough drops for a week.... but it's worth it. Bring out the true you, it'll be much better without the need for noisemakers
