Is there an off-season that exists that does not play music during robot play and when people are talking on the mics?
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None that i know of, or at least make a point of it.
No music at all creates dead air. Imo not something an event should strive for…
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At our event we have a blanket ban on audience-participation music, especially the type where the dance instructions are in the lyrics. Instead, our DJs are required to play music that a reasonably astute observer would decide to listen to on their own.
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I didn’t suggest no music at all. Just curious if there’s an event out there with no music during robot play and during mic times. I would be interested to see what it’s like. To highlight the robot sounds and game sounds. To not have sensory overload after two (or four) full days of constant noise chaos. Music during delays and between matches makes sense to me.
Not saying that this should be the norm. Just curious if it exists to see if it even works well. It seems like all we know is noise noise noise.
Our Week 0 event we host, we have no music during robot play (trying to avoid copy right strikes on YouTube). Sounds actually kinda cool, as like you said, you hear all the robot noise. https://youtube.com/watch?v=SObYKu_2tSk
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I actually really like this idea. A chill event if you will. After a season of being at 11 for a few months straight I would appreciate being at a 3 or 4.
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WVROX has a round in their 26 hr, 14 minute endurance event where there is zero human-generated sound permitted whatsoever, including from drive teams. No music. No cheering. No play by play. No voice communications of any kind. Just the sound of robots.
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We had little to no music in the first year of our offseason, and one of the biggest requests for the next year was to have someone in charge of music. It simply adds to the atmosphere. And its also evident in how much it adds to the atmosphere (atleast to me) at events like chezy champs and etc.
The FTC Massachusetts State Champs didn’t play music if I recall correctly, but it didn’t feel like there was dead air.
At least it’s not baby shark.
There isn’t a full off-season competition that does no-music. But at West Virginia Robotics eXtreme (WVroX for short) which occurs every other year, they have specific set matches for gimmicks. In 2018 there were a set of matches in which had no music, no announcers, no talking within your driveteam. The only communications were hand signals or other ways without talking. It was so cool to watch a match and hear just the machines doing work. There’s footage of one of those matches Here.
Unfortunately it’s still hard to hear the robots from the matches, you had to be there in person. But this is still one example of something like this occurring.
Some early SCRIW editions didn’t have music going between rounds, and I found it kinda zapped the mood. But then, that’s the reverse of what you’re asking about (in that the robots could balance it out).
There was also Einstein 2011, which got roundly criticized on CD (and yeah it was pretty weird).
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