team cheers

[BrendanB]

1. one person- PIO

2. everyone- NEERS

for full effect, repeat steps 1 & 2 until before you get yelled at by everyone else to be quiet before proceeding to step 3

3. everyone screams

all i got good luck

[Billfred]

Once more, the Fighting Gamecocks lead the way. (It's especially fun to do at Palmetto, held at archrival Clemson University.)

It seemed to work pretty well for us, though be prepared to do it for nine or ten matches in quick succession. Once we were eliminated in the semis after six cardiac-inducing elimination rounds at Bayou, I had to sit down for a while to recover. Remember us old people when you formulate*.

*I'd punctuate this with a "GET OFF MY LAWN!", but I know I'm inviting a few similar demands by even suggesting that I'm remotely old.

[vivek16]

YEAAAAAH!!!!!!!! seems to work pretty well for us. By Saturday, I'm too tired for any coherent cheers anyways.

-vivek

[Chris is me]

My team has a fairly groan inducing, yet still fun cheer, created by the great Tyler Olds years ago at Wisconsin.

"What's better than robotics? More Robotics!"

The thing that makes sense to me is that people use this cheer who've never heard of More Robotics before. I'll tell people about my team at college and they'll be like "Heh, like the cheer right?"

[Josh Goodman]

How about something like....

F-I-R-S-T
We're rocking out scientifically.
F-I-R-S-T
F to the I to the R to the S to the T
The Kings and Queens of the Laboratory

I'm sure that would be a huge hit if you sang it between 80-200 times at the Boston Regional.

[Mr. Pockets]

1189 cheer = all hands in + someone saying "We're all..." = Massive shout of "GEARHEADS!"
Good fun, especially in enclosed areas!

Though in our case that's really not reserved for comps. We do it almost everywhere.

[JaneYoung]

I got to sit with MOE at IRI and learn how to clap. It rocked.

One of the things I've asked our spirit lead to do is come up with a one-line or two-line cheer this year. An idea that I suggested was to have a contest within the team for the cheer. Winner wins a gift certificate to Frys. Don't know what she will decide but, hopefully, we'll have an awesome team cheer by 2010.

[EricH]

The classic cheer out on the West Coast for many years was the Gila Dance (Team 64, Gila Monsters, now split into at least two teams).

Leader: AAAWWAAAWWAA!! (pounding chest--think Tarzan yell/chest pound)
(repeat from group)
Leader: AAAWWAAAWWAA!! (pounding chest)
(repeat from group)
Leader: Gila!*jump* Gila! *jump: Gila-Gila-Gila! (while jumping in a circle)
(repeat from group)
Leader: Gila!*jump* Gila! *jump: Gila-Gila-Gila! (while jumping in a circle)
(repeat from group)
(Repeat whole thing)

The last performance was at the 2008 Arizona regional, after a key mentor passed on.

[Fe_Will]

We use a cheer from our school, it is done with one or two people leading and the remainder following:

Leader: "Raider, Raider, Raider!"
Group: "Oi, Oi, Oi!"
Leader: "Raider, Raider, Raider!"
Group: "Oi, Oi, Oi!"
Leader: "Raider!"
Group: "Oi!"
Leader: "Raider!"
Group: "Oi!"
Leader: "Raider, Raider, Raider!"
Group: "Oi, Oi, Oi!"

It is like a town watchman announcing that raiders are coming. It gets pretty loud most of the time and we avoid doing it in the pits because you can't hear anything else.

P.S. Having a cheer lead by one person requires them to be loud enough to catch everyone's attention and get things started. We do it before every match and after most of them. I suggest having a rotation of leaders or one person who can last the event. Bonus points if a person on your drive team can lead a cheer from the floor

[smistthegreat]

Originally Posted by Samheartsrobots

Want to hear a case of irony?

All last year our team could not come up with one team cheer. Now after reading this post I think I have a good one. Maybe it will inspire you too.

W-A-R-L-O-C-K
We're gonna go
All the way!

Lol i'm not quite feeling this one Sam. After going to Einstein i think we should have an incredibly epic chant.

And imo, the MOE chant is the best. With all the clap, clap, clapclapclap, clapclapclapclap, go MOE! and whatnot. Epic.

[hipsterjr]

I will yell at the team "sure you bot can score"

Then the team yells " but can it dance?!"

[Katie_UPS]

Leader; "WHO'S COLD?"
Team; "I'M COLD!"
L: "WHO'S TIRED?"
T: "I'M TIRED"
All: "AAAAYYYYYYY!"

or

(Sung to "The Farmer and The Dell")
"1675, 1675, The Ulitmate Protection Squad, 1675!"

or

Rick-a-rick-a-ree! Kick em in their knee!
Rick-a-rick-a-rass! Kick em in their other knee!

[whatabouteve]

Well our team has many cheers,

2-4-5(slower)
and faster and faster until
2-4-5(fastest)
when your team can't possibly say it any faster everyone screams,

then there's also blue/red alliance,

and repeating screaming your name with energy helps.

Our team is just naturally energetic i don't know where it comes from.
Well thats not true i do know just have someone who was on the team before be there.
For some reason the college student just explodes i an array of excitement.

[Ryan Simpson]

Originally Posted by whatabouteve

Well our team has many cheers,

2-4-5(slower)
and faster and faster until
2-4-5(fastest)
when your team can't possibly say it any faster everyone screams,

We could do the same thing, except saying "Pi" each time...

[Bomberofdoom]

I'll have to agree that the "We've got spirit, yes we do.." has to be one of the most awesome chants I ever heard in FIRST. I actually heard it for the first time when I was at my first time in the Georgia Dome, saving some seats for the team for the opening ceremony of Friday. I was just seating there with another team member, in the seats overlooking Galileo, our division. There were a few other team representitives also saving seats for thier team, not alot though. All of a sudden, this group of students from some team below us stand up, turn back to the other teams above them screaming "We've got spirit, yes we do!...". At first I had no idea what they were saying, and then one student from one of the other teams, i think, replied to them, and those who started repeated again, untill more and more joined in, including me.
I just had no clue how these guys, at 7:45 in the morning, had such will power to chant like that!

I've just never experienced this kind of team spirit before, so it was just pure fun for me and that moment is one of my most memerable moments in Atlanta.
The spirit that was going on in the crowd throught all of these 3 days was just soo amazing and made my trip to Atlanta soo much fun.

You guys rock in the USA.