Music at the competitions

[Corey Oostveen]

As the DJ at West Michigan. The song that was bad was on the "FIRST Approved CD's, I have no idea how it got on there but it was.

If you took the time to come up and ask for a song, I would hand you a list of FIRST approved songs and if your song was not on there I could not play it. I was given a small selection so I was doing the best I could do, My apologies that a five year old heard 30 seconds of a really bad song that somehow made it on the CD


In my defense I can not hear the tracks that are playing, I have the monitor turned down in respect of the people on the field and all the sound is directed out.

Probably good to keep in mind that I am a Volunteer, not a payed DJ.



Corey Oostveen

[mtaman02]

Originally Posted by GVDrummer

I think the competitions should have a designated dance area complete with a disco ball, lights, and a fog machine. It gives teams the ability to still have the team spirit and dancing freedom with out the inconvienence of hitting and blocking people trying to get back and forth to the pits that are trying to work on the robots and watch the competition.

Impossible!!!!

Each venue is different in size. your lucky if the regional committee can make space for a small sized mascot pit.

As far as the playlists are concerned, it doesn't bother me to hear ANY song. We live in an age where there is no such thing as "virgin ears". Yea you could get away with not playing songs that contain cuss words nearly 7 - 8 years ago but times have changed. Artists are doing their best to come out with both PG songs AND Explicit versions. Just about every song has at least one bad word in it in almost every genre and I doubt FIRST will go that extent in banning all those songs b/c what you'll end up with is the same song playing 20 times over. You also have to keep in mind that someone at FIRST HQ doesn't really sit there and listens to EVERY song that's on the market and if they do then I want to copy their Hard Drive.

In short I'm not saying bend over and take it, just saying that in this day and age this is what where left with as for right now and since I grew up listening to all genres I myself don't find a problem with what is played at the events.

[Q. Sheets]

Here is the official playlist for this past season. Thank you Marian Murphy at FIRST for sending it to me. There are 572 songs on it (577 if you count duplicates, 2 titles but same artist and song)