Smells like Team Spirit

[suneel112]

This year I have seen many spirited teams, using various devices to cheer their team on (though I haven't seen an 80" LCD showing cheers). Post some teams that are known for cheering, and how well they did, and what teams should do to cheer.

GO FIRST!!

[theory6]

Originally Posted by suneel112

This year I have seen many spirited teams, using various devices to cheer their team on (though I haven't seen an 80" LCD showing cheers). Post some teams that are known for cheering, and how well they did, and what teams should do to cheer.

GO FIRST!!

Bring along 12 busloads full of kids from your school to a regional and the spirit award is practically handed to you! Make them interested in FIRST...make them have fun

[KathieK]

Originally Posted by theory6

Bring along 12 busloads full of kids from your school to a regional and the spirit award is practically handed to you! Make them interested in FIRST...make them have fun

Yes, but exactly just HOW did you get that many people interested in your team? That's what we really need to know.

And how exactly do you motivate your students to be engaged in the cheering and spirit? We struggle with this!

[MOEmaniac]

A good amout of the students just naturally like to dance and have fun and it's hard not to when ur wearin bright green and have green hair. More than half of the mentores get up on their own and just start dancin too. I guess it's mainly because were so serious during the build season that when were at comps. we just want to have fun and do well. And plus, we're already sticking out like a sore thumb because we're wearing quite possibly the brightes shade of green you can get, so its not like were gonna draw much more attention.

[Gyrodyne]

In the Chapionships our team (810) started the HEYYY cheer which orginated back in build season. The cheer is where eveyrone randomly yells out HEYYYYYY. A bunch of teams caught on to it and when they saw our team they would HEYYY at us and we would HEYYY back. We attempted to get the entire pits, or at least our Curie division to join in the cheer by having our robot pull our cart around the pits with people on it cheering. It didn't work to well, but at least we made the Championship video at the adward ceremony.

Oh and another thing if anyone saw people offering free hugs, a memeber of our team also started that one on the first day of championships.

[Alaina]

I can't stand my team. They all refuse to cheer. =[

[Nate Edwards]

my team had less then 6 people at all times in the crowd at least student wise but we did alot of chairs, painted our faces, danced around a bit, and scouted every single match in the process, we have some improvements but we got into a HEALLOOOO screaming fight with Sir Charles which was the best, but i lost my voice so it was weak on Saturday. But this was a really fun trip and we are still stuck in Spirit Mode

Nate

[MOEmaniac]

I too lost my voice on thursday and it hasn't come back yet

[CyberWolf_22]

MOE and GRT where definitely spirited some of my team ended up dancing with them when they were still dancing at the wrap party.

[suneel112]

461 WAS the spirit team at one point. When I was a freshman, there were a lot of laid back advisors on PR, and they invented stuff such as "Let's go Red", "Let's go Blue", and our trademark "Let's all Go Nuts...Robots!! Robots!!"

Even into last year, the X-Cats won the spirit award in Chicago, but we won their team spirit award. That was also the year that one motivated, extremely spirited member of our team graduated. (He was so spirited, he probably could have beaten any of the announcers in spirit)

This year, people didn't want to cheer, and that wasn't cool. Only a few of the returning members knew how to cheer (although some rookies were also pretty good)

Seriously, it is the job of the stands to cheer for robots! not only their team or friendly teams, ALL ROBOTS!!!

[Franchesca]

Originally Posted by Alaina

I can't stand my team. They all refuse to cheer. =[

It's our teams first year and for the most part we still need to work on our team spirit. However, at the Peachtree Regional it was basically me and one of our mentor's daughter that were doing most of the cheering. The reason for this could be because our team is made up of mostly guys that are not really interested in cheering as much as they are in being around the pit. It does get little tiring to be cheering out there all alone as oposed to having the whole team cheer with you.
But next year is a whole new year and I expect to see a lot more team spirit from my team. I think that as we get more people and specially more girls we'll have a team with enough guts to cheer, so i guess we'll see.

On a scale from 1-10 on a cheering scale, 10 being the best, i would haveta rate my team a 3.5-4. My team lacked in cheering this year. Like at the awards ceremonie like 3/4 of our team didnt even stand up and cheer for the other teams. Nationals out team spirit was pretty good. but the other competetions that we had this year, wasnt too great with the team spirit. I hope that next year everyone from my team will get into it and cheer like no other haha.

[bhweezer]

My team cheered well, but during the semifinals in Newton we were told to sit down because we were blocking the field. The thing that bothered me by that is that it was our alliance partners telling us to sit down. They wouldn't even cheer for their own alliance in the semifinals.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by bhweezer

My team cheered well, but during the semifinals in Newton we were told to sit down because we were blocking the field. The thing that bothered me by that is that it was our alliance partners telling us to sit down. They wouldn't even cheer for their own alliance in the semifinals.

Some teams just don't get it.

[theory6]

Originally Posted by KathieK

Yes, but exactly just HOW did you get that many people interested in your team? That's what we really need to know.

And how exactly do you motivate your students to be engaged in the cheering and spirit? We struggle with this!

You tell them its fun, its free, theres gonna be 400 other people coming, you get to miss a day of school and you get free team T-Shirts! Team members tell their friends to come and they tell their friends to come and the list goes on. Spread the word about robotics throughout the school and people will want to know what it is, how it works and what teams do. Trust me students like to be there cheering for their team.
O By the way, you HAVE to tell them that your robot is great...otherwise they won't really bother hehe