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Unread 25-02-2005, 17:31
Sarah Johnson Sarah Johnson is offline
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Re: Smells like Team Spirit

I think cheering definitely is one of the most important parts of the FIRST competitions. It makes it fun even if your robot is losing, because you can just cheer for everyone else and still have a freaking awesome time :-D.

Cheering definitely has to start with a leader. It's tough to beg people to like start cheering when they think its dumb, but if you have fun cheers that aren't super complicated, people will join in when they see how much fun you are having. If you come up with fun cheers that you can catch on to easily and are kinda kookie. You can collaborate with others teams also at regionals and nationals to make it even louder and more fun.

Another thing I noticed helps with cheering thats not even under your control is the regional/national facility. If it is like kinda small so its totally packed like it was at the Wayne State University for Detroit, then it makes is like 10X more fun! Everyone gets so excited and when you have like mass cheers it echos through the place and you can hear the cheers better. Its hard to cheer in Ipsylanti because teams are super far apart and you are like shouting out into nothing (or a big huge open space) So it makes it more fun to cheer if you are in a packed small arena.

Thats my 2 cents on what makes cheering extra fun. Its one of my favorite parts of regionals. Cheer on guys! (and dont forget to cheer WITH other teams, its super fun)

Sarah (yes, the girl lisa said cheers with her for 573 !!!)
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