Ok, I've got to give my two cents. Being part of the best MC/Announcer team in FIRST
I can tell you that I love it when people get loud and spirited. At NJ they were loud, but they could be louder. I was really surprised that not more people were spirited at NYC when I was the MC this year. It made things really hard to get the crowd into it. In Atlanta however, granted people got tired after three days but, you work six weeks on this creation and when you see it working on the field then you SHOULD be excited.
I know my team (11) has a large group (number varies from competition to competition so i'll give a rough estimate of about 50) and they make their presence known. That being said we do stand for the entirty of our matches, but we do try to sit towards the back where people won't be disturbed.
I know that if I come home from and competition and I still have a nuiance of my voice left, my mom goes "what went wrong?"
I think Paul Kloberg says it best when he says "We all know the original meaning of the acronym FIRST, For Inpiration and Recognition of Science and Technology...but there's another meaning that Woody and Dean don't want you to know about...FUN IS REQUIRED, SO TOLERATE"
That's all from me this time.