Inferno v. Dynamo - ESPN2 - SATURDAY

A lot of you often say "we've got to do better", "we really need to
bring it this week", and you gush on and on about how good supporters
group X, Y or Z looked/sounded/represented any given week.

For 10 years I've plied my trade at the back of the Inferno, and i've always
refused to accept/take/getdraftedinto any type of leadership role precisely
BECAUSE i'm all about Eris, Discordia, Slack, Dobbs, and Crowley ("Do What
Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"). As a Supporters' Group,
we've always been free-form, Avant-Garde, and Extremely Individualistic.
I'm down with that. I hate fascism, and everything it entails.

The only exception to the above are Nats fixtures in this market. Owned.

Preamble over. Subject of this thread:

If you want to "look good" and "maximize presence" with the
"available forces and resources" you'll listen to Travis this week
and on Saturday and take your cues from him about where to stand,
and if you're SINCERE about wanting to make the Inferno look/sound/seem
bigger/morepowerful/louder, then you'll volunteer to OWN responsibility
for some visual aspect in-game.

If you people will listen to Travis, and DO WHAT HE SAYS,
WHEN HE SAYS YOU SHOULD DO IT, I *guarantee* the Inferno
will look/sound/seem 3x bigger/morepowerful/louder than it ever
has. As I always do, for a National Broadcast, or for a Derby
Fixture, I'll bring everything I have. I have close to 50 sticks
operational right now, including a bunch of 4x6 Texas flags
on 5' poles. We've never deployed everything I own to
even 50% of operational efficiency. I can make the same
impact on the Inferno as I do on Nats fixtures, but only if
you, Comrades, are down with this One Game Plan.

Volunteers for this Mission will probably NOT be standing
next to their buddy, you will have to stay in one place
and allow Civilians/Slackers to filter in around you.

Is that sacrifice worth it to you for what it will mean to the team?

Not to mention the Rep of the Inferno, League-Wide ??

This is an ESPN2 game.

This is our _last_ SCHEDULED national broadcast prior to (ohm to the Gawdz)
our hosting of the Cup Final on ABC 12 November.

We can return to standard chaos/freeform/anarchy until the
playoffs. Or we can blow it off for this game as well.

YOU MAKE THE CALL.

-bs

 

Not if you move too.

I know any retreat from anarchy is cause for alarm.

I understand that.

This involves sacrifice of "position" from everyone.

There is a slackadaisical hierarchy that has been established
as to where people stand. When Northside and his crew are
in town, they're 2/3rd's of the way back, and 2/3rd's of the
way over from "ground zero". Veshia always takes up station
to the left of where the Northside crew forms up, even when
they (the austinites) aren't in for a fixture. The Posse always
hangs in the same place. I can go on and on and on. The
entire section has a tribal "pecking order" if you will (but it's
subconcious mind you) that always causes people to stand
in the same place out of habit.

Anyone who is sincere about "firming up" for a fixture (this one)
is going to have to quit their habit for a single match. I know
we'll never pull this off, but what the hell.......

Ground Zero (for whatever reason) has formed about 4 rows up
and 4 seats over from the northeast (row 1 on the aisle) of 116.

Move the drums. Move the caller. Move the Baby Tex. Center
the Inferno Banner on 116. Leave row 2 in front of the drums empty.
For this to work, and i'm pretty sure we lack the intestinal fortitude
to pull it off, you, Jefe, would be calling from 6 rows up in the middle
of 116. The BabyTex would be centered in 116 beginning on row 7.
The drums would be centered in 116 beginning on row 3.

Did I mention closing down the tailgate at 2:20 and getting in by 2:30
and getting organized and deployed properly ???

Moving "Ground Zero" would allow the troops to be pulled up, to the
left, and to the right, much easier, because the "Center of Gravity"
would be "balanced", and not synthetically tilted towards 4 rows up
and 4 seats over from the northeast corner.

This is only one change in dynamic required to achieve anything
close to optimal results, which is why I know we'll never pull it off.

The desired end state is everyone who is able bodied either responsible
for confetti (only 5-8 people total spread EVENLY throughout the first
15 rows, SIDE TO SIDE, of 116), responsible for pyro (1 or 2 max, not
Manck, and down in front somewhere in front of the drums), drummers,
callers, NO MORE THAN 12-15 TROOPS TOTAL for the BabyTex, and
then EVERY OTHER ABLE BODIED PERSON responsible for a stick, with
one or two people to their left and one or two people to thier right
who are not responsible for a stick, but could be confetti people, and
at least one row in front of them and one row behind them separating
themselves from someone else with a stick, all said individuals radiating
in a staggered cascading manner from the edges of a deployed BabyTex.

Newbies, interlopers, exiles in 117, whoever doesn't normally get
one of the "Best" standing locations, are allowed to filter in and
fill in at their leisure. But regulars respect Travis' Authoritai.
Travis is not just designated. He is now SANCTIFIED.

If empty space remains, SO BE IT. In the section, you may perceive
it to be "gaping", but on TV and from the east and west side of the
stadium, I can assure you that the empty space will not seem that
empty. The only place it would look weird to someone would be someone
sitting in 115 or 117 looking to their left or right as the case may be.

From a chant standpoint, it will take more dedication for "unpacked"
troops to get in full voice. Understood and guaranteed. Just one
more sacrifice to be made.

I'd create graphics of all of the above if I thought it would do any good.

But I don't. Back to your regularly scheduled free-form schadenfreude.

-bs

 

Throats evenly spaced and projecting unidirectionally will create more
decibels in a larger "volume cone" than what normally transpires where
throats close together cancel and neutralize each other creating more
disparate "volume cones" that do not project as far or with as many
decibels. We're in to diffyQ, doppler and fluid dynamics at this point, so
I'm not going to keep going, but the bottom line is that, if done right,
on queue, synchronized, and in "full voice", spreading out = more volume.

Dats the fax, jax.

-bs

 

And there you have it.

We are Slackers.

Slackers are Us.

Thus, the only solution is to get more Slackers.

And therefore, you create MORE SLACK.

PRAISE BOB.

PRAISE THE LASER PROJEKT.

And so, the great 2006 Inferno attempt at regulation
dies a happy death. I'm glad we worked through this
together. I'm in Denver tomorrow-friday, so I won't be
there Wednesday. I will deploy as normal for Saturday,
which means if you want a stick come and take it. And if
we ever manage 500+ troops consistently, I'll again
raise the whole subject of (wince) "organization".

Mods please close the thread.

End of Line.

-bs

 

Electronic Text is the worst means of communicating satire or irony.

And it's not about you, and your individual willingness "to try anything".

The entire section would have to be down with it, and you convinced
me it's impossible, simply because the talent doesn't exist to synchopate
WITHOUT the additional complexity of spatial awareness.

I'll speak to you about the dig (whining little baby?) in person...

Again, please close this thread. I agree with gator, it ain't possible.

-bs