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What silence - my ears are still ringing
Posted by Alan Federman at 04/10/2001 2:01 PM EST
Engineer on team #255, Odyssey, from Foothill HS, San Jose and NASA.
In Reply to: Cheering
Posted by Brent L. Marriott on 04/10/2001 9:08 AM EST:
: People cheer to promote spirit and to help get their team noticed by the judges and scouts. Cheering is a part of gracious professionalism.
: People need to remember that nothing is perfect, and a competition of this magnitude will have some flaws. That is why we continue to come back every year, to improve on these flaws. We are perfectionists (engineers).
I found the noise level (background music ) much too loud at the Nationals. It was impossible fo me to tell if people were cheering/silent/ or blasted by sound into
bruised numbness. I think many times teams lost points because spoken instructions could not be heard. Often teams were unaware the bridge was off the pivot until after the match - they simply could not hear the other teams or even the announcer.
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