pic: "Welcome to the Georgia Dome Baby....Welcome to Atlanta Baby!"

[Randy]

Originally Posted by abeD

I actually have video of the whole time when he went into the stands and you and some others bearhugged him...good times good times...I'll see what i can do on uploading that.

If you need some space to upload it to, drop me a PM



While I didn't stop by to watch a match at the dome, Sir Charles was the announcer at the peachtree regionals as well and was great there.

[tiffany34990]

yeah he was cool!!! the bear hugging was def. funny-- and now on S.P.A.M. the joke is everythign ends with a baby-- so it's all good baby! hope he's back next year-- it is cool to have fun annoucers not boring ones obviously

[Not2B]

Select members of my team could only speak using words that had come from his mouth. I think that Sir Charles will be one person that we remember for YEARS to come.

This is a programmers dream!
IN THE A-T-L BABY! HELLO!!!
You know that that means! Hello!

[Collin Fultz]

adding to what ryan said...i think we got 64 "baby"'s in 4 matches...that's 16 a match. i loved him.

[JTH]

You know, at first I kind of got irritated by the repetativeness (HELLO!), but then it really started to grow on me. But I didn't realize how much he really motivated the crowd until I went to the other three stages and witnessed how dry they seemed... After that, I really really really dug his announcing. HELLO! WELCOME TO THE A-T-L BABY!

He did get compliments from Dave Lavery, TechTV, CNN, and many others, too. I was hoping they would have asked him to do Einstein, because he was that awesome, but they didn't.

Oh yeah, and I'm the guy standing on the left side of the picture. I'm guessing it was taken during the Newton finals.

[Pat McCarthy]

I really loved his announcing. Jim (an engineer on my team) and I had contests in the stands; we each pick a certain word or phrase Sir Charles said alot ("HELLO!", "Baby!", "Going for the Hang!", "All about it!") and count how many times he said it in a match, and the person with the most won. It was great!
I hope that Sir Charles will emcee next year if Dave Verbrugge can't do it. (seeing as how I'm a little biased to want Dave to do it.)

-Pat McCarthy
HOT Team Webmaster

[Paul Copioli]

I have to say that I enjoyed hearing Sir Charles announce, but I did only hear him a couple of matches at a time and noticed he was a bit repetitive. Here is some observations and opinions coming from a fellow announcer:


1. Outstanding energy. I thought I was energetic .. he makes me look like I'm half asleep.

2. His knowledge of the game was lacking at first, but it got better by Saturday. He should have done a little more research beforehand.

3. The "Raising the Bar" phrase was actually supposed to be said a lot (maybe not as much as he said it). In announcer training (yes, there is announcer and MC training), we were told to use "raising the bar" during the competitions.

4. His way to get the crowd into it during elims was awesome! I am actually going to use some of his stuff at Great Lakes next year.

5. O.K. Here is my biggest critique: his repetitiveness was distracting from the game. As announcers, our job is to keep the game exciting while keeping the focus on the game. He had many of us counting how many he times he said certain words (I was counting "hellooo") and that is distracting our attention away from the game. Often, in public speaking the person doing the speaking doesn't realize how much repeating is actually happening. I think if Sir Charles sat down and watched some of his matches, he would see this habit and adjust accordingly.

In conclusion, I think he did a great job and hope to see him announce in the future. And Sir Charles, if you are reading these forums ... thank-you for volunteering your time to this great program.

-Paul

[Dabney48]

Welcome to Atlanta Baby, then there is "robot mugging" he said it only 2 but it was funny. Everyone on Newton Check out my picture yet. It is too funny.

[jerry w]

i am glad to hear that most people liked Charles.
i, on the other hand, seldom like loud noises. the visual competition is enough for me.

but, i am from another generation.
so i will continue to try to adapt.

Jerry W

[Greg Perkins]

That guy was awesome!!! I was watchin the webcast all saturday, and the stuff he was saying was hilarious..."goin for da hook up baby, raisin tha bar" Classic...

[Paradox1350]

Dear, LORD, I must be the only one that absolutely COULD NOT stand this guy. He was still saying "WELCOME TO THE GEORGIA DOME BABY" on Saturday. I had been in Atlanta since Noon on Wednesday. I had been spending almost every waking moment in the dome. There was no need to welcome me at that point. I had been welcomed. Thursday morning uncrating, I was welcomed.

Sure he had energy, but I was so utterly annoyed by the constant 'hullo!'s, 'baby!'s, and "he's goin' fa' da' hook up!". I honestly wanted to stab myself. Yes, stab myself with a spoon. And the phrase "There are no 180 possibilties on the field" is just dumb. I hated it.

I'm sorry, but I honestly couldn't stand him. You all liked him, I know, but I, and most of my team, couldn't stand him.

The announcer at my regional (BAE, New Hampshire) was MUCH better. He was the guy that was on the Newton feild, pointing out each team, and always counting down "3, 2, 1, GOOOO!" He was awesome at BAE, and I was dissapointed that Charles was doing it instead of him.

[Alex Cormier]

correct me if i am wrong, but it sounded familiar to the guy who did the buckeye regioanl. was he the same guy?

[Collin Fultz]

Originally Posted by Paradox1350

Dear, LORD, I must be the only one that absolutely COULD NOT stand this guy. He was still saying "WELCOME TO THE GEORGIA DOME BABY" on Saturday. I had been in Atlanta since Noon on Wednesday. I had been spending almost every waking moment in the dome. There was no need to welcome me at that point. I had been welcomed. Thursday morning uncrating, I was welcomed.

i think the point of that was to welcome all the other spectators that hadn't been at the dome all weekend. i live in indianapolis and i got three people who otherwise had no experience with FIRST and they loved it.

[IMDWalrus]

For those of us that weren't at Nationals...would someone mind typing up his story? I'm curious...

It sounds to me like (a) it was his first time announcing and (b) that he was liked by the majority of people there, but I'm not sure if that's right or not.

[VinceT]

as one of the drivers i really liked him, but alot of the people on my team got annoyed with him saying "baby" so much (one who got particularly annoyed with him was dubbed 'baby G' by our team) My favorite phrase he kept saying was "laundry basket" reffering to the catchers. "talk about no laundry today, that basket is EMPTAY!"