BamBams and Thundersticks

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Originally Posted by lukevanoort

Unfortunately, Personally, I'd classify these as obnoxious noisemakers.

Thank you.

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

Some team had those at champs this year.... extremely aggravating.

Another team banged pool noodles together.... Also extremely aggravating. They banged them at completely random times that would hardly be considered cheering... If anything they were just screaming "Please don't like us!!!!"

Thank you.

Originally Posted by Don Rotolo

I am not a big fan of thundersticks, since they are LOUD. I guess obnoxious is a matter of opinion, but they qualify in my book.

Don

And thank you. I'm glad I'm not the only one to think these are extremely obnoxious. When we were... somewhere (i forget), a team had these big sticks they were banging on the floor (I was getting a horrible headache), and when I asked them to stop or not bang them all of the time, the guy replied, "What, we're just cheering!" I know that FIRST has a rule against noise makers, but how can they judge what is cheering and what is going over the edge? Also, when we were in Atlanta, our team was standing and cheering when our robot got out on the field, but we were politely asked to sit down by the team behind us (their robot was not on the field). How can FIRST regulate that? I don't mean to offend anyone by this post, but some teams need to consider those around them. For instance, my grandma came to Atlanta, and some teams were so loud that she had to spend most of the time outside!!