Myself, Sarah, and whoever the human player for the match at the time happened to be had a pre-match dance back in 2001 and 2002 on Team 71…it consisted of us standing in a circle, jumping up and down with our hands in the middle, and someone giving a pep-talk. Then we’d break and go on our way…it seemed to be fairly successful and many people thought we were wierd :ahh:
Good times…:tear:
Kev
I used to harlem shake before my matches. But it always looked kinda odd and well, white. 
( Sometimes I’d throw in a little crypt walk ) We also had a coordinated dance with our robot during the middle of the matches and the robot would clap a beat. ( that is to say if we’d done all we could and we were up against like no one else… and mainly practice matches ) … We always tried to get the crowd going with it… but it never seemed to work… boo hoo
It was more to get my nervousness out. I know this is kinda off topic does anyone else get really nervous when they are about to drive?
This is quite true. I tried to do it in front of a group of friends and well let’s say, they just stared at me and all just kinda took a big step back. Tick dance all the way! 
Team 677 does the “look at the camera awkwardly and shift uncomfortably with a cheesy forced smile on our faces” dance…
I love the tick dance, but sadly I didn’t get to see it at UTC 
Hopefully 121 will have a great driver dance in Atlanta. We already have the “2” thing, and we “bump it” when we win a match, but I think we’re gonna come up with something even better. 
Our team started something new this year and it went off great, the 4 in the player station got into a circle and swayed yelling and jumped around, while our team did the same in the stands on the floor. By our last match in the finals we had a 125 person circle all swaying and yelling, it was awesome!
That really saddens me. Hopefully we’ll be able to track you down in Atlanta and teach you how to do it and give you some stuff for being a sport. So look for the Tick Chicks in Atlanta guys, we’ll be the ones being surrounded by crazy sexy dancers
Melissa
I know the tick dance. I made my brother [ricksta121] show it to me and I realized that it’s the dorky white person dance that I love to do at school dances. I’m not sure why I didn’t see it at UTC (maybe because I’m on the 121 drive team and I was paying more attention to operating the robot than anything else.) But I’ll definitely try to meet up with you guys if I have the time. I don’t mind making a fool out of myself for free stuff. See you there!
We had a few guys from 121 do the dance, Seth being one of them. He was so into it he participated in a dance off. But yeah, we’ll see you in Atlanta
Melissa
cant wait! (are you guys in newton division??) if so hope we get paired up with you guys, and everyone make sure you are looking out for the new 121 dance \m/
Does anyone even remember the big pimpin dance??? This year tragically only the NJ regional and UTC got to see it.
Our drive team is kinda funny… we all just generally listen to music… and well Harlem Shake but it looks more like convulsing…
Last year we had the arm sway which is where we would move our robot arm back and forth and clap to the beat of whatever song was playing ( with the box gripper )
It was a crowd pleaser… well atleast it pleased me lol
Dan
I can see that pleasing many people. I’ll look out for that
Melissa
Tick Dance is the best IMO. As oz_341 said, the tick dance at Nats was pretty awesome. We had their guys doing it an our arm operator was getting involved and everything. Coincidence that we won the Galileo Division with the Ticks? I doubt it, also credit to Buzz for their great bot last year.
I just remember last year when we partnered up with 236 (and 175), everyone was like, we gotta win this division. Great robot for 236 in 2003 and great dance forever.
Aww how sweet. We dance for people like you
Melissa
Lol, I’m very touched. Hopefully, I can see the tick dance again at nats this year.
Oh you’ll see it alright
Melissa
lookin forward to it, i’m just procrastinating from HW right now, so someone please keep posting.
i saw the tick dance at utc… they even had a big blue tick doing the tick dance.
You better believe we had a tick. And he’ll be running around Atlanta too
Melissa