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Originally Posted by GVDrummer
I think the competitions should have a designated dance area complete with a disco ball, lights, and a fog machine. It gives teams the ability to still have the team spirit and dancing freedom with out the inconvienence of hitting and blocking people trying to get back and forth to the pits that are trying to work on the robots and watch the competition.
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Impossible!!!!
Each venue is different in size. your lucky if the regional committee can make space for a small sized mascot pit.
As far as the playlists are concerned, it doesn't bother me to hear ANY song. We live in an age where there is no such thing as "virgin ears". Yea you could get away with not playing songs that contain cuss words nearly 7 - 8 years ago but times have changed. Artists are doing their best to come out with both PG songs AND Explicit versions. Just about every song has at least one bad word in it in almost every genre and I doubt FIRST will go that extent in banning all those songs b/c what you'll end up with is the same song playing 20 times over. You also have to keep in mind that someone at FIRST HQ doesn't really sit there and listens to EVERY song that's on the market and if they do then I want to copy their Hard Drive.
In short I'm not saying bend over and take it, just saying that in this day and age this is what where left with as for right now and since I grew up listening to all genres I myself don't find a problem with what is played at the events.
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Past FIRST Robotics Events that I proudly volunteered at:
FLL: NY State Competition '03
FRC: NYC Remote Kickoff '04 & NYC Regionals '04-'15 ,'10-'13 & NJ Regionals '06-'10, Finger Lakes Regional '09 & SBPLI Regional '08-'15 and the World Championship in '05 (Galileo Field) '07 (Newton Field) '09 (Practice Fields Attendant / FTA(A)), CeBIT Convention in '04 & NextFEST in '06 both held @ the Javitts Center, Monty Madness '07-'10, Panda-monium '08, B.Eruption '08 & '09, Ramp Riot '08, PARC '09 & '10, BR^2 '09 & Wol. Inv. '09 -'15
2015 FIRST Robotics Off Season Events that I hope to volunteer at:
Where is Wolcott Invitational
2015 FIRST Robotics Events that I will be volunteering at:
SBPLI Reg. & Championships
Volunteer Resume:
Alt & Lead Team Queuer, Field Repair/Reset, Field Setup/Breakdown, Spare Parts Attendant, Field Power Controller/Score Keeper, Co-Emcee & Official Scorer, Control System Advisor, FIRST Tech Advisor Assistant & recently Practice Field Attendant.