Music Tips for FLL Competition

[Danny Diaz]

Originally Posted by ebarker

At risk of sounding heretical !!

Heretic!!

No, really, I'm the Head Referee for the Central Texas FLL Championship Tournament and I definitely see the benefit/need for music. I MOST DEFINITELY agree with you on the loudness, I appreciate having hearing afterward and being able to talk to the referees, teams, and coaches. But without music, we had kids every 10 minutes or so trying to stomp on the bleachers to the tune of "We Will Rock You", and the referees tired quickly after lunch without the music. All music should be kept low, I completely agree, and should be a background item rather than a foreground item - but it most definitely needs to be there.

For our qualifier tournaments this season we purposefully made the first round of play longer than the rest of the rounds; we had 7.5 minutes between matches. So, one of the qualifier hosts took advantage of the long interlude and scheduled the Cha-Cha Slide or whatever it's called for one of the breaks between rounds, and they had 6 teams worth of kids plus tons of spectators come out on the floor and dance to the music, and it was a HUGE blast and a crowd hit. It's that kind of energy I want to have at the Championship Tournament!

-Danny