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Re: Smells like Team Spirit
Personaly for me team spirit has always been one of my favorite areas of FIRST. I can remeber in 2001 when 461 went to the midwest regional, our robot was doing horrible and we were extremely downtroden during lunch on the second day. Although after a few rousing speeches, we went back in and cheered like there was no tomorrow and won our first of several spirit award.
The next year our team was able to develope several 'cheers' and became more advanced in our noise makers and what not and once again were a very loud spirited team. I still remeber 461 in binary, due to cheering it entirely to often, and when i see my old team members around i always give em a "LEts all Go NUTS!" and wait for the response of "ROBOTS! ROBOTS!"
PErsonaly i've always been very impressed with teams like Moe, and team 65, and The Thunder Chickens when it comes to spirit. Team 71 was always really into cheering for their team and alliances. Though one of my favorite experiences in the team spirit catagory has to been when many of the Indiana teams began bonding within the last few years and all cheered for each other, regardless of who was competeing. Chants of "Indy-An-A!" and cheering for indiana alliances always warmed my heart and reminded me it was all about more then robots.
I dont think the number of people cheering really has alot to do with spirit. Because spirit is more then just volume and cheering. ITs an attitude, a spirit, a drive, and a state of mind. There is something strangely gratifying about cheering so loud and so hard and believing in what your cheering for so much that you nearly cough up blood and cant talk for a week.
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Last edited by Josh Hambright : 03-08-2004 at 14:24.
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