History of Team Spirit

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Originally Posted by dk5sm5luigi

As for team spirit I think it has gone down a little (at least in NE) over the past several years. In 1997 and 1998 when the regional was in New Hampshire there were shouting cheers (We've got spirit, etc.) going across the gymnasium and everyone was involved. When the competition was moved to Hartford teams tried to continue this but Meadows was a terrible spectator arena and noise didn't travel that well. The one year the competition was in New Haven the team spirit seemed to pick up and I think this is because it was easy to have cheer wars across the field.

Hopefully this will pick up again, seeing that the UTC New England Regional isn't at the Meadows anymore, but rather at the new Connecticut Convention Center.

As for team spirit, if you watch this video from the 1993 Competition, the level of team spirit is more than evident. The level of team spirit then was probably as much as it is now.