[EricH]

Originally Posted by Henry_222

I do have a lot of thoughts floating around in this thread, it is pretty confusing.
My assumption on the structure of a team is from seeing a few different teams and their similarities in composition.
My concern ultimately lies with these two things:
1)Mass dancing interferes with game play. Time is scheduled into the rules for anything robot related; let it be such.
2)I am afraid there is a growing population of students that have no role on teams. Whether that is the same percentage-per-team multiplied by more teams at regionals now, or just a shear increase in the team size, I believe it is happening.

OK, well, now we have two concerns. I'm not sure the second one is valid, so I'll ignore it in this response.

Now, as to the first concern: If you'll notice, it usually only happens when there is already down time, such as robot cool-down or in a timeout situation. So I'm not sure what the concern is there. If it goes long, then I can see grounds for concern (e.g. if it goes long during the Championship when time is already critical.) But it usually doesn't.

What would you rather have: High schoolers with nothing to do for 6 minutes or those same high schoolers with an activity that might cause the regional to run a little long?

Remember, most of the teams not in the finals have already packed up their robots or are working on it with a designated crew. So there are a lot of people with nothing better to do than dance or cause trouble or what-have-you. Based on your posts, you would rather see them have nothing to do, which could cause problems, which would certainly drive potential sponsors away. I would rather keep them occupied with dancing until the field was ready for matches again.