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Originally Posted by CalTran
For instance, Metal Mustangs are known for our silver cowboy hats. Look through a crowd, and we're pretty darned easy to spot.
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My team, the killer bees, used to be able to do that with our antenne. However, now because so many people wear them at compititions we must rely on other factors (such as our bright yellow shirts). Overall, though really not a bad problem to have at all, lol.
In all seriousness though, our team is run pretty loosely at compititions. Kids who arn't scouting or on the pit crew can go and do pretty much whatever they want although staying in the stands is encouraged. The single biggest "rule" is that everybody has to be togeather to cheer for the robot during matches (I'm not really sure why you wouldn't want to watch and cheer on your robot anyways, but thats just me). I would say that the buddy system is not manditiory but team members tend to stick togeather anyways so its not really a problem.
Also I think you'll find that if you let students have "free roam" of the compitition instead of chaining them to the stands you find that they'll for the most part stay in the stands of their own accord, as opposed to forcibly being there and wishing to be somewhere else. I know this is the case on our team.
Psychology: the Engineering of the mind... sort of.
