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Our team has some interesting traditions. One of the newer ones is the "Do a barrel roll!" tradition, which started in 2008. At the Great Lakes Regional, we had made it to the finals as the underdog #7 alliance of 67, 326, and 503. Being a sophomore on the team, I had never experienced a regional win, and we were all pretty excited. We ran down as a team from the stands to as close to the field as we could to watch the final matches. We won the first match, then lost the second. But we decided that for the third match, we would yell "BLUE ALLIANCE, DO A BARREL ROLL!" during the autonomous mode. We ended up winning the match.

The next year, this became our lucky cheer. We would only use it during the match immediately following a loss in the eliminations. The outcome of every single match where we have yelled "RED/BLUE ALLIANCE, DO A BARREL ROLL!" has been a win for our alliance.

Barrel Roll matches:
2008 GLR Finals Match 3 - Win
2008 Curie Semis Match 2 - Win
2009 Troy Semis Match 2 - Win
2009 MSC Semis Match 2 - Win
2010 Kettering Finals Match 2 - Win
2010 Wayne State Finals Match 2 - Win
2010 MSC Finals Match 3 - Win
2010 Newton Finals Match 3 - Win
2010 Einstein Semis Match 3 - Win

Incidentally we used the cheer in 2008 for the Curie semifinals, but forgot to use it in the finals on Einstein.

I doubt our luck with this cheer will continue that far into the future, but I love doing this cheer, and it gets everyone really hyped up for the match when we spread around that we're going to do the cheer. It's really exciting, and really loud. I think you can hear it in one of the recorded movies of the Wayne State finals this year.