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Originally Posted by ICanCountTo19
This year teams cheer whenever 469 gets a penalty, when they tip, when their is a practical joke that is hurtful to them.
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I'm going to play devil's advocate for a second. Everyone, please remember that when a team wins a match by penalties on the other alliance, they're going to cheer - they won. Whether or not the penalties are on 469 or not, they're going to be cheering. So will all of their supporters, their brother or sister teams, and their friends. When one of the teams (it was a smaller robot - 1023, maybe?) succeeded in keeping 469 parallel to the ground in one of the elimination matches - the closest anyone really got to tipping that robot on a flat plane, because that match proved that 469 CANNOT tip in that fashion - I was one of the ones screaming "OH MY GOSH OH MY GOSH OH MY GOSH" in the stands. The friends that I was sitting with were doing the same - all three of us wondering whether or not 469 would be out, if there were going to be penalties awarded, and what the eventual outcome would be. We weren't cheering for seeing them tipped, we were aghast at everything that was going on, and I know that it's impossible to distinguish things like that from the honest-to-goodness cheers. Just remember that not all noise that comes from the stands is necessarily cheering [:
What I was not a fan of was when 469 was trapped on a bump, and the entire arena cheered - it was
very obvious that it was a cheer for 469 being knocked out of commission. There was another cheer when they were freed, but it wasn't nearly as loud (probably from their alliance and a few other teams).