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Originally Posted by mom571
I looked at pictures from the 1st competition in N.H. "Maize Craze", did not see any form of team or FIRST Spirit.
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From watching the finals videos of 1992 there was a lot of team spirit. When I saw it 2 years ago I was surprised how much team spirit has stayed the same since 1992.
As for team spirit I think it has gone down a little (at least in NE) over the past several years. In 1997 and 1998 when the regional was in New Hampshire there were shouting cheers (We've got spirit, etc.) going across the gymnasium and everyone was involved. When the competition was moved to Hartford teams tried to continue this but Meadows was a terrible spectator arena and noise didn't travel that well. The one year the competition was in New Haven the team spirit seemed to pick up and I think this is because it was easy to have cheer wars across the field.
What I would like to know is which team was first to have a pep band. I know the team which is currently 155 (Technonuts from Berlin, CT) had a pep band in 1996 and every year after that until they were made illegal.