an odd choice of Chairmans Award music at FLR? Dylan?!

[KenWittlief]

Ok, have it your way then, but having 30 robots doing the chicken dance instead will require a little more driver skill!

[JohnnyB]

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

Ok, have it your way then, but having 30 robots doing the chicken dance instead will require a little more driver skill!

Pff driver skill? Let the programmers do it autonomously

[Katy]

The hokie pokie? Hey now that is something Im looking forward to

the day when all the robots at the regional have their own radio frequency

and we can put 30 or 50 robots on the field during lunch break

and have THEM ALL doing the hokie pokie!

Well while we are on award-winning ideas...lets do it now...who has a tether cable?

[Steve W]

Ed, next time I will come up in the stands and bring you down to the field. I can't believe that you are so old that you couldn't join in. Let's all just have some fun. It is a party you know(but no "dancing"). I found that things livened up with those songs and sort of died with the rap "music".

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Steve W

Ed, next time I will come up in the stands and bring you down to the field. I can't believe that you are so old that you couldn't join in. Let's all just have some fun. It is a party you know(but no "dancing"). I found that things livened up with those songs and sort of died with the rap "music".

Now I know when to take a loooooooooong bathroom break.

[J Flex 188]

It's all going to be a matter of taste in the end anyways. I think Koko is right, every regional no matter where it is will always have a collection of "hokey" songs that are played over and over again in an effort to bring the crowd forward; but that again is part of what makes FIRST endearing, to always see the mascots doing the YMCA and what not. I thought the playlist was fine at Rochester. I love hip hop, and was rather surprised at the amount they did play as well, it had a pretty good mix as far as I am concerned. I also heard some P.O.D in the midst of it as well.

[ScoutingNerd175]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Now I know when to take a loooooooooong bathroom break.

But see, if you run out of the room every time they play the Hokey-Pokey, you would have missed the mascot dance at the Chesapeake Bay Regional! Now that was enjoyable! I particularly enjoyed watching my best friend in the Buzz mascot try to put her left and right hips in because, of course, our mascot is just really round and you don't really have hips. (also you can't reach your butt when doing the macarena.

[Kit Gerhart]

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

Anyone else think it was a really odd choice of music, at the Finger Lakes Regional

after the chairmans award was given

to play Dylan's "Rolling Stone" ?

A balad of a teenage runaway, living on the streets, fending for herself?

"how does it feel, to be on your own
with no direction home
like a complete unknown
like a rolling stone?

.... No one ever taught you how to live out on the streets, and now your gonna have to get use to it"

is this our new 'Chairmans Award song'?

or did someone pull an Ashlee-Simpson and hit the wrong button?

it was just, well....... weird!

I suspect that it was kind of a random event that "Like a Rolling Stone" was played at that time. It's a great song, but not necessarily appropriate to go along with the chairman's award announcement.

[Elgin Clock]

Music for awards is usually standardized across the regionals.
Or that is what I have noticed from my 4 years of FIRST anyways.

[KenWittlief]

I just wondered if anyone else noticed?

It was surreal, like when you are dreaming, and your radio alarm clock goes off, and for a minute you hear the music on the radio in your dream, and in your dream you realize "wait a minute, where is that music coming from?" and you wake up.

it was like that. Everyone was walking around, picking up their stuff in the bleechers, teams were finishing up crating their robots, teams heading home

and Bob was singing away

"Now you dont talk so loud
now you dont seem so proud
about having to be scrounging your next meal
How does it feel?"

I was wondering if I would wake up at home, and the whole regional was only a dream, with Dylan on my clock radio :^)