[Tetraman]

This is truely what FIRST is all about. At the Buckeye Regional this year, me and my team were really into just cheering for anything. We cheered for 93 just cause we liked the number, we cheered when our robot fell over, we cheered for 703 and actually got them into cheering for their team, we even cheered chants of teams that wern't at the regional like 1559 and 250.

The other team at the Regional from New York was team 1230, and they could only bring 5 team members and about 5 mentors. So we adopted them and cheered for them when their team was out on the field. We had such a time just cheering, it as so fun. We didn't even care if we got any Team Spirit award (which was the origional plan to begin cheering), we just enjoyed it and the time we were there.

We got into the finals, and each time our team was called, all 10 or 12 members of the team that were there from 1230 stood and clapped for us. We never expected and never thought that a team would thank us like that. It seems so small to most people, but to each member of my team and to each member of 1230, we felt real sportsmanship, gratious professionalisum, and Team Spirit between us. Team 174 is always going to cheer for team 1230 from now on in honor of the most amazeing experience of FIRST I've ever seen.