MOE Sticks: Good or Evil?

[The Lucas]

Originally posted by gwross
I wasn't at the championships this year, but if they were anything like the staves of a couple years ago with which some team pounded the bleachers into submission -- Pure unadulterated EVIL!

If you have never seen MOE sticks, they are 2 one-foot-long pieces of wood, which are clapped together. We always paint them our team colors, green and black, this year in a diagonal stripe pattern. I have seen other teams like #304 WAR Dept (probably result of sitting near us last year) and #191 X-Cats make their own sticks. Our team joined the X-Cats clap during lunch one day.
As for the staves you are talking about, I remember seeing teams a couple of years ago use broomsticks with a coke bottles full of beans attached to one end of the stick. They would bang the wood end of the stick against the bleachers. I think those sticks were banned from competitions due to the heavy amount of damage which they inflicted on the bleachers, which angered the hosts of the competitions.