Language at Championships

[KTorak]

Originally Posted by deficite

I'll close up saying that I was disappointed when I heard all the people laughing when the speech announcing the Chairman's Award was taking place. I thought it was very unprofessional and childish to say the least. I'd like to see any of the people laughing at the speaker (over something as silly as just having a running nose, which is what it sounded like) stand up in front of an international event and make a speech.

I also thought it was really unprofessional for teams to be leaving during the speech in order to go the party quicker. It's not like there wasn't going to be enough tables to seat everyone or enough food to feed a small army. The teams leaving obviously didn't realize that there were still tons of teams who had to completely crate their robot and pack up before leaving the dome.

Originally Posted by lukevanoort

I have been known to slip in the odd expletive when I crunch/burn/cut/rip/abrade/solder/puncture/electrocute/smash/etc. my fingers, but only in our shop, use of foul language at a competition is really a stupid idea. A competition is like a massive job orientation, and you don't swear at one of those do you? What you say is great advice and should be taken by every team. (Although it can be hard to enforce a no swearing rule)

That's understandable, and i'm sure many people do that in private. But I agree that it is unaccaptable at an event in front of the public.