Saving Seats

[Tetraman]

Originally Posted by EricH

You guys are one of the teams that almost didn't get scouted. If you must stand through your entire match, when scouts behind you need to see the field (and when bystanders, people just dropping by, etc. would prefer to see it), then please be as far back as you can get. Otherwise, you may be subjected to comments about "Lousy window!" from above and behind you. Team introductions and scores announced, stand all you please. Matches, sit down and cheer from a sitting position.

Our team spirit is all we have. Our robot is awful this year and is usualy isn't that good any other year. We won Buckeye this year all case we were matched with 272 and 494. We went 1-6-0 at Atlanta. What would you do if you were loseing? I'd get myself up, shout as lond as I could and let people know that this is the robot that my team has built and we are proud of it. I wouldn't expect anyone to scout us, we are rarely noticed anyway. All we have been known for is cheering. So thats what me and my team are going to do. We are going to get up for our robot. And if we are in your way, thats great. You can read the back of our shirts and see who we are. Thats my team's thoughts on the subject.

Other than that, I think that if everyone is really nuts about it, how about asking FIRST if they can tape off the front row of seats what way scouts can have a seat, and ask them to enforce it. If it's really that much of a problem, tell FIRST you want them to inforce it. No sence just ranting on it here. If you want something done about it, than do something about it.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Tetraman

Our team spirit is all we have. Our robot is awful this year and is usualy isn't that good any other year. We won Buckeye this year all case we were matched with 272 and 494. We went 1-6-0 at Atlanta. What would you do if you were loseing? I'd get myself up, shout as lond as I could and let people know that this is the robot that my team has built and we are proud of it. I wouldn't expect anyone to scout us, we are rarely noticed anyway. All we have been known for is cheering. So thats what me and my team are going to do. We are going to get up for our robot. And if we are in your way, thats great. You can read the back of our shirts and see who we are.

We at least have a policy of scouting every single team, every single match. I'm pretty sure other teams have a similar policy. By not sitting DURING the match, you could have shot yourselves in both feet. Take an example from 1108 and 75. They stood during the team announcements, and sat as soon as the countdown started. And do you really want people knowing who you are by having you stand up the whole match and block their view of the field? You can ruin things for everybody behind you by standing (you weren't even cheering while standing, which I find almost completely inexplicable, if you want a Team Spirit award, and which could excuse your standing ALL MATCH).
There is a thread (I believe it is called "Standing, cheering, and required team actions") on this subject, started last year. Read it. Most people on CD seem to agree with me: sit down during the matches, stand any other time you please, make as much noise as you want any time.

[Tetraman]

Originally Posted by EricH

We at least have a policy of scouting every single team, every single match. I'm pretty sure other teams have a similar policy. By not sitting DURING the match, you could have shot yourselves in both feet. Take an example from 1108 and 75. They stood during the team announcements, and sat as soon as the countdown started. And do you really want people knowing who you are by having you stand up the whole match and block their view of the field? You can ruin things for everybody behind you by standing (you weren't even cheering while standing, which I find almost completely inexplicable, if you want a Team Spirit award, and which could excuse your standing ALL MATCH).
There is a thread (I believe it is called "Standing, cheering, and required team actions") on this subject, started last year. Read it. Most people on CD seem to agree with me: sit down during the matches, stand any other time you please, make as much noise as you want any time.

I wish you knew my team.

Back on topic shall we? Saveing seats? Ok. I agree that saveing seats isn't the best thing to do. It's wrong but people still do it. There are sometimes problems and there are sometimes not. I will repeat what others have said: If you want it to be inforced, tell FIRST. If no one tells FIRST than there isn't a problem, right? If you want to see a change, everyone on this thread construct a letter and email it to FIRST, to Dean, to whoever needs to see it. Tell them how you feel about it, and tell them you want it enforced. Here I'll start it for you!

FIRST/Important person:

Members of Team 47's Forum comminity have expressed their opinion about enforceing the "no saveing seats" rule. It has been ignored my some teams and has been a problem in some occations. We ask that you consider enforceing the rule, or to make us all aware of the reason why the rule can not be enforced.


You all can fill in the rest. I'm not going to send it because I have never seen a problem with it. If you want to make a change, be the change.