2016 Chairman's Award Winners

[cadandcookies]

I've put together a spreadsheet for this year's winners on Google Drive. It's almost identical to last year's but with the new events and Districts added, and some small formatting changes. You can find this year's spreadsheets at the bottom of this post.

Of note this year:

Last year I had some fantastic students and mentors help me keep the spreadsheet up to date, in addition to dozens of comments correcting errors and adding information. In particular I'd like to thank Jacob Bendickson, Brendan Marshall, and Karthik Kanagasabapathy for adding information. This year, I am looking for other people to add information. It would be great to have someone from each District area to add information to those events. PM me if you would like to do this for your area.

One of the things I'd really love to do is collect the number of teams submitting at each event. This requires someone at the event who can see the schedule for presentations, so in order to collect that information, I need someone from every event to find that information. If you are able to find that information for your event, please post here or PM me. I am planning to be at the Lake Superior/Northern Lights Regionals, Iowa, and MN North Star/MN 10K Lakes regionals, so I don't need anyone to cover those, but for any other events, we need someone!

I'm also going to do a little Chairman's Preview the Wednesday before each week for Regional and DCMP events, other than this week for Palmetto (sorry!). Unfortunately I'm not omniscient, but my previews will be based on previous years' performance and my knowledge of the teams at each event. It's quite possible I'll miss some stuff, but my goal isn't to predict the winners each week, it is to provide in broad strokes who is likely to be competitive for the award at events, so you don't have to do all the research yourself. If you find yourself missing from my preview, please don't take it personally-- I'm human and I can't cover everyone!

Lastly, best of luck to all teams competing for Chairman's at their events! Submitting for the Chairman's Award is in my opinion a core part of the experience of FRC, and I hope you're learned about yourself and your team by doing it.



2016 Chairman's Award Winners (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RfX3d3P2d6UtDLJB8x9XAViBPo46AZvzwNcwdqAfyT8/edit#gid=0)

2015 Thread (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=135479)
2014 Thread (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=127397)

[cadandcookies]

An update on events that are covered for #of teams submitting:

Lake Superior, Northern Lights, 10K Lakes, North Star, Iowa, Central Illinois, Midwest. 2/4 Peachtree District events + DCMP.

Jacob and Karthik have graciously offered to help out again with filling in the spreadsheet, so thanks again guys! This means I'm still looking for contributors from CHS, MAR, NE, and FiM in particular (this isn't to knock the other areas, it's just that those are the ones with a lot of events).

Again, please PM me or post if you can find the number of submissions at an event you are attending. In particular, I'm looking for someone at Palmetto and at each Week 1 event right now (San Diego, GTR Central, Israel). Please let me know if you can find the info from one of those events!

[D_Price]

I can for sure help out with Greater Pittsburgh.

[cadandcookies]

I can for sure help out with Greater Pittsburgh.

Excellent, thank you!

From now on, I'll be marking whether an event is covered in the column next to the event name. "Covered" in this case means someone is collecting the number of presenters at that event. Feel free to comment there instead of or in addition to posting here/PMing me if you can get the number of presenters for an event.

Thank you to everybody who has offered their help with this project so far. You all are why the FRC community is so awesome!

[PerryParadox]

I can cover SanDiego and Sac

[cadandcookies]

I can cover SanDiego and Sac

Excellent. I already have someone at Sacramento, but didn't have anyone confirmed for San Diego yet. Thank you for collecting that data!

[Tottanka]

Ill cover Israel

[AndrewPospeshil]

I can cover MICEN (3), MILIV (4), and MILSU (5). I'll also see about Southfield (1), Kettering #2 (2), and Ann Arbor Skyline (6) if I end up going.

[cadandcookies]

Ill cover Israel

Excellent! I think that means we have all of the Week One regionals covered. Thank you for doing this!

I can cover MICEN (3), MILIV (4), and MILSU (5). I'll also see about Southfield (1), Kettering #2 (2), and Ann Arbor Skyline (6) if I end up going.

Thank you! I'll mark those all down.


We're still looking for people to report number of submissions at the following District events week one:
Northern Virginia [CHS]
Mt. Olive, Hatboro-Horsham [MAR]
Kettering #1, Southfield, Standish-Sterling, Waterford [FiM]
Guilford [NC]
Waterbury, Granite State [NE]
Auburn-Mountain View, West Valley [PNW]

If you are attending one of those events, all we need is the number of submissions! I know I've said thank you a bunch already, but seriously, more people contributing to this makes it easier for everyone involved, so thank you to everyone contributing again!

[ebarker]

For row #2, Palmetto, shouldn't it say 4, not 3 for total wins, and 3, not 2 for the 'streak' ?

[wjd13]

I can get Granite State and Reading in NE, I'll see what else I can do beyond that. I'll talk to Brendan M as well, I'm sure he'll want to help again.

[jweston]

I can get Granite State and Reading in NE, I'll see what else I can do beyond that. I'll talk to Brendan M as well, I'm sure he'll want to help again.

If I can be of any help, our team will be at Waterbury, UMass Dartmouth, and Hartford in NE District.

[cadandcookies]

I can get Granite State and Reading in NE, I'll see what else I can do beyond that. I'll talk to Brendan M as well, I'm sure he'll want to help again.

If I can be of any help, our team will be at Waterbury, UMass Dartmouth, and Hartford in NE District.

Excellent, I'll mark those as covered-- remember, the only number I really need from you is the number of teams who submitted for Chairman's at your events.


For row #2, Palmetto, shouldn't it say 4, not 3 for total wins, and 3, not 2 for the 'streak' ?

Indeed you are correct! Thank you for pointing that out.

If anyone else notices issues or inconsistencies now or in future months, feel free to comment directly on the spreadsheet. Same goes if you can cover an event.

Thank you all for your help!

[Red2486]

Nick, I can cover AZ North & Colorado! Also, let me know if you need help with anything else, I'd love to contribute!

[Karthik]

For row #2, Palmetto, shouldn't it say 4, not 3 for total wins, and 3, not 2 for the 'streak' ?

Yeah, that was my fault. I forgot to include the current year in those numbers.

[Andrew Schreiber]

For number of submissions, do you mean total at start of season or total presenters?

[cadandcookies]

Nick, I can cover AZ North & Colorado! Also, let me know if you need help with anything else, I'd love to contribute!

Excellent! I have someone getting info for each of those events, but redundancy is good! Thank you for offering to help!

For number of submissions, do you mean total at start of season or total presenters?

The data that is easiest for us non-judges to get is who actually presented at the event. I woke up today to a couple PMs from people with access to how many teams are submitting for Chairman's at future events, so I'm adding those as "preliminary" numbers (since it's definitely useful to have on there), but ultimately I'd like how many teams actually submitted at the event.

[Woetie]

He Nick,

Great initiative! We (Team Rembrandts) are participating in the NYR and TVR in week 2 and 3. We have some connections within the organisation and I would like to contribute in get you the required data.
This is our first year @ the NYC and TVR and also the first year that we have submitted for chairmans so I don't know what I am getting myself in to but I am confident that I can get you the data. Atleast the total presenters, I am not sure about the preliminary numbers yet.
I will PM you as soon as I got a response!

[cadandcookies]

He Nick,

Great initiative! We (Team Rembrandts) are participating in the NYR and TVR in week 2 and 3. We have some connections within the organisation and I would like to contribute in get you the required data.
This is our first year @ the NYC and TVR and also the first year that we have submitted for chairmans so I don't know what I am getting myself in to but I am confident that I can get you the data. Atleast the total presenters, I am not sure about the preliminary numbers yet.
I will PM you as soon as I got a response!

Excellent! Thank you for helping out, and good luck submitting for the first time! I hope you find it to be as rewarding an experience as I do.

[Woetie]

Excellent! Thank you for helping out, and good luck submitting for the first time! I hope you find it to be as rewarding an experience as I do.

Thank you, it is already rewarding for us as it helps us structurize while working towards our ultimate goal: the first ever EU FRC regional in 2018 ;).

And glad I can help, I will get back to you as soon as I have news.

[Jessi Kaestle]

I can cover MAR-HH (1), MAR-SCH (3), & MAR-Westtown (5).

[wjd13]

Granite State District Event Chairmans(NE):

Teams who Competed for Chairmans: 78, 88, 131, 811, 1517, 1729, 2342, 3566, 3958, 4905, 5422

Winner: 4905 (Andromeda One)

Founded: 2013, but that was so we could compete in our rookie year in 2014. So 2013 was the actual year the team started, our rookie competition year was 2014.

Location: Ayer and Shirley, Massachusetts

Wins in the past 5 years: 2 (including this one)

Total Chairmans wins: 2

PPW: 0

First Time: No, won in '15 in Reading

Current streak: 2

Video Link To Come! Congrats to all NE teams who competed this week!

[cadandcookies]

Congratulations to all the week one winners! I believe we have every team that won in week one other than Israel, which hasn't happened yet. We are missing the number of teams who submitted in the following district events: Northern Virginia, Hatboro-Horsham, Kettering, Guilford, and West Valley. If you know how many teams submitted at those events, please contact me!

We're still looking for people to collect the number of submissions at the following events during week 2:

Regionals:
Arkansas Rock City
Los Angeles
Orlando
Greater Kansas City
St. Louis
Mexico City
Central Valley

Districts:
CHS: Greater DC, Southwest Virginia
IND: Tippencanoe
FIM: All covered! (other than maybe Kettering 2)
NC: Wake
PCH: Covered!
NE: WPI
PNW: Covered!

Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the sheet so far! I hope you're all finding it useful.

[cjster]

I don't know who all submitted at Kettering #1 but...

1322 won. 2nd time, 1st was at Escanaba in 2015.

[vhcook]

I can cover Kansas City.

[Bob Steele]

Congratulations to the SOTABOTS (Team 2557) for their District Chairman's win at the Auburn Mountainview District in PNW!!

Go BIG YELLOW!!!

[cadandcookies]

I don't know who all submitted at Kettering #1 but...

1322 won. 2nd time, 1st was at Escanaba in 2015.

Thanks, like I said, we have all the teams that won now, it's just the number of teams (that submitted) I'm looking for. Congrats to 1322!

I can cover Kansas City.

Excellent, thank you!

[Liam Fay]

Is it worth tracking Engineering Inspiration, too?

[cadandcookies]

Is it worth tracking Engineering Inspiration, too?

Unlike Chairman's, Engineering Inspiration is much more... difficult to predict. Any team at the event is eligible for it, and how it is awarded varies based on region. One of the main purposes of this sheet is to provide some sort of base "scouting" data for team competing for Chairman's at the Championship event.

What it really comes down to though is that I have a limited amount of time and I'd like to focus on Chairman's. If you'd like to track EI, I'd definitely encourage you to do so-- it's just that, for me, right now, I'm swamped between all my other FIRST stuff and getting a degree.

Also, congrats on winning EI in San Diego, you guys definitely deserve it!

[SoulianPride]

I can cover Kettering #2 if it's still needed. I have a list of teams who submitted.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Unlike Chairman's, Engineering Inspiration is much more... difficult to predict. Any team at the event is eligible for it, and how it is awarded varies based on region.


Mumble mumble.... Trust me, Chairman's varies heavily based on region...

[cadandcookies]

I can cover Kettering #2 if it's still needed. I have a list of teams who submitted.
Definitely would love that info! Send it our way!


Mumble mumble.... Trust me, Chairman's varies heavily based on region...


I'll definitely agree that there are some pretty obvious (and major) regional variances, but Chairman's winners seem less likely to come out of absolutely nowhere than EI (at least, at events I've seen).

[Alex2614]

I'll definitely agree that there are some pretty obvious (and major) regional variances, but Chairman's winners seem less likely to come out of absolutely nowhere than EI (at least, at events I've seen).

I agree! There are very drastic differences with both awards, but Chairman's is much easier to at least narrow down to a few teams no matter which event you go to, where as EI sometimes comes out of nowhere (which isn't a bad thing, just an observation). There are obviously outliers and exceptions with both of these, however.

[Liam Fay]

I agree! There are very drastic differences with both awards, but Chairman's is much easier to at least narrow down to a few teams no matter which event you go to, where as EI sometimes comes out of nowhere (which isn't a bad thing, just an observation). There are obviously outliers and exceptions with both of these, however.

From what I've observed, it often comes out of nowhere because teams that have never submitted Chairman's before/are submitting seriously for the first time often do not win Chairman's right off the bat.

[cadandcookies]

From what I've observed, it often comes out of nowhere because teams that have never submitted Chairman's before/are submitting seriously for the first time often do not win Chairman's right off the bat.

This is where those regional differences come in-- for some areas, EI often looks like second place Chairman's. In others they seem entirely separable. I've seen teams that submit every year for Chairman's win EI and teams that have never and aren't ever planning on submitting. It's a much harder predictive challenge than Chairman's, which is plenty difficult already.

[Mcomer]

Here is the Camdenton LASER 3284 2016 RCA video from the St. Louis Regional.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sVGnwBxSxs
Thanks for compiling maintaining the RCA award list.

[TikiTech]

Howzit All!

I have seen that the Hawaii Regional was covered, just in case here is the results..

Hawaii Regional Competition:

Team #: 3880 (Tiki Techs)
Founded: 2011
Location: Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
Covered: Y
Awarded: Hawaii
Wins in the past 5 years: 2 ('13 & '16)
Total Chairman's wins: 2
PPW: 4
Current streak: 1
First Time: No, won in 2013 at Inland Empire
Engineering Inspiration wins: 6 ('12, '13, '14, '15 (x2), '16)
Awards History: http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/3880/history
Week: 5
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzMow9tl6Ys
Essay Link: http://www.firstinspires.org/resource-library/frc/2016-regional-district-championship-chairmans-award-winners

Thanks for this great resource compilation.

Good luck to everyone!

Aloha

[waialua359]

Howzit All!

I have seen that the Hawaii Regional was covered, just in case here is the results..

Hawaii Regional Competition:

Team #: 3880 (Tiki Techs)
Founded: 2011
Location: Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
Covered: Y
Awarded: Hawaii
Wins in the past 5 years: 2 ('13 & '16)
Total Chairman's wins: 2
PPW: 4
Current streak: 1
First Time: No, won in 2013 at Inland Empire
Engineering Inspiration wins: 6 ('12, '13, '14, '15 (x2), '16)
Awards History: http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/3880/history
Week: 5
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzMow9tl6Ys
Essay Link: http://www.firstinspires.org/resource-library/frc/2016-regional-district-championship-chairmans-award-winners

Thanks for this great resource compilation.

Good luck to everyone!

Aloha
Congratulations on all of your awards and accomplishments, especially the EI award. You folks are always the frontrunner for that award. Must be nice getting that Championships paid for year after year.
Ironicallly, we have never won that award in our 17 year history at a regional, but suprisingly won it at Championships in 2008.

See you at Championships.

[TikiTech]

Congratulations on all of your awards and accomplishments, especially the EI award. You folks are always the frontrunner for that award. Must be nice getting that Championships paid for year after year.
Ironicallly, we have never won that award in our 17 year history at a regional, but suprisingly won it at Championships in 2008.

See you at Championships.

Your program is at such a different level, hence your HOF chairman's.

We wouldn't be a FRC team had you not done all the great work on promoting FIRST throughout our state for so many years and much more. We work as hard as we can to be a chairman's worthy team and our near misses thankfully earn us the EI. The EI's NASA grant have definitely contributed to our ability to attend the championships which in turn has created our students drive to keep working hard on the chairman's award.

Thanks for all your hard work for FIRST. Many teams can contribute their success to your team.

See you at championships. Still dreaming of the Einstein Hawaiian Alliance!

Imua Waialua!

Mahalo nui loa

[waialua359]

See you at championships. Still dreaming of the Einstein Hawaiian Alliance!

Imua Waialua!

Mahalo nui loa
After seeing and playing many matches against so many teams this year....359,368,3880 could make Einstein in one of the 8 divisions. I mean that.:)

[PurpleInk]

To help fill in a box on your spreadsheet, here is 1747's Chairman's video:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3Qlwp9y7he6MVVJVXlJY1Y1Tlk

Thanks for managing this project and keeping it running!

[hardcopi]

2959 won at LSSU this weekend.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uP1Ms53E6AY

[StaceyJ]

Orlando Regional 2016
Team #: 180 S.P.A.M.
Founded: 1997
Location: Stuart, Florida
Covered: Y
Awarded: Orlando
Wins in the past 5 years: 2012 World Champions, 2013 South Florida, 2014 Orlando and SF, 2016 Orlando and SF
Total Chairman's wins: 1
Current streak: 1
First Time: YES
Awards History: http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/180/history
Week: 2
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTsCebtp8tk
Essay Link: http://www.firstinspires.org/resource-library/frc/2016-regional-district-championship-chairmans-award-winners

Thank you from FRC180 SPAM

[Tottanka]

3211
The Y Team
2010
Yeruham Israel
Won in Western Canada REgional
9 submissions
Won in 13' and 14'
Total 3 RCA wins
1 presentation prior to win
1 year streak
not first time
0 EI
History: http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/3211/history
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUeL116hy8M

[Hallry]

FYI, CHS has 3, not 2, DCMP Chairman's slots.

[Bmarshall645]

1519, Mechanical Mayhem won at Pine Tree district in New England. The New England districts have finished and the spread sheet is all finished on my end for New England.

See everyone at district champs!

[jlmcmchl]

I can proudly say that 5090 won the Chairman's award at the Woodhaven FiM District. My relatives were inspired by going to events while I was on 27 to start their own program, and through their hard work, dedication, and many struggles, they have come so far, and were recognized for it today.

[IndieWaves]

Congratulations to the Pacific Northwest District Championship Chairman's Award Winners:

FRC Team 1540
The Flaming Chickens
Portland, OR

FRC Team 2980
The Whidbey Island Wild Cats
Oak Harbor, WA

FRC Team 4911
CyberKnights
Seattle, WA

The PNW District is rooting for you all!

[jaunvie]

Thank you so much for the shout out jlmcmchl. The team worked very hard. (And it was fun sitting in front of you guys ;) I will do my best to give some of the information but I'll admit I'm not sure what some of the acronyms mean. :P

Team#: 5090 (Torque-Nados )
Founded: 2014
Location: Trenton, Michigan
Covered: (I'm nor sure what this means)
Awarded:Woodhaven
Win in the past 5 years: This is our first chairman's win
Total chairman's wins:1
PPW: (again not sure)
Current streak : 1
First time: Yes
Engineering inspiration: None
Awards history: https://www.thebluealliance.com/team/5090/history
Week: 6
Video link: (we have not yet posted but plan to soon)
Essay link: (we have not yet posted but plan to soon)

[weberr]

FiM Ann Arbor Skyline2016
Team #: 3641
Founded: 2011
Location: South Lyon, MI
Covered:
Awarded: Disctrict Ann Arbor Skyline
Wins in the past 5 years: 2013 Livonia District Winners, 2013 Gull Lake Chairman's, 2015 Gull Lake Chairman's, 2016 Skyline Chairman's
Total Chairman's wins: 3
Current streak: 2
First Time: no
Awards History: http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/3641
Week: 6

[ebarker]

to the keeper of this spreadsheet:

The entry for row 73, FRC 1311 is incorrect.

It shows an RCA in 16, and a total of 9 wins.

It should not show an RCA in 16, and the total should be 8.

thanks,

Ed

[cadandcookies]

to the keeper of this spreadsheet:

The entry for row 73, FRC 1311 is incorrect.

It shows an RCA in 16, and a total of 9 wins.

It should not show an RCA in 16, and the total should be 8.

thanks,

Ed

Thank you, I'll fix that.

Edit:

Sorry, this is a result of a misunderstanding-- on the main page, we're counting regional or DCMP wins as the same thing-- basically, winning a Chairman's Award that qualifies you to compete for the award at Championships. Since your team won the PCH DCMP Chairman's Award, we count that in our total (you are right about the count though-- DCAs aren't counted on that page, only in the individual district pages).

[Dancin103]

Here is a look at the distribution of all teams that won at a district state championship and regional level "RCA" this year along with the hall of fame teams, for historical perspective.

Please note the number of previous wins does not include district events only district championship wins and for some teams in the HOF some of their previous wins include "Nationals Honorable Mentions or Runner Up" as before 2002 everyone applied at the "National" level.

Congrats to everyone, and good luck!

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/13043268_1007751462633633_5801784328531806907_n.jp g?oh=c9a532149bc44622ad5320ded02294dc&oe=57B04883

[Jscout11]

I believe team 11 should have 4 RCA's listed. It isn't listed on TBA but they did win it back in NJ '05

[tindleroot]

Here is a look at the distribution of all teams that won at a district state championship and regional level "RCA" this year along with the hall of fame teams, for historical perspective.

Please note the number of previous wins does not include district events only district championship wins and for some teams in the HOF some of their previous wins include "Nationals Honorable Mentions or Runner Up" as before 2002 everyone applied at the "National" level.

Congrats to everyone, and good luck!

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/13043268_1007751462633633_5801784328531806907_n.jp g?oh=c9a532149bc44622ad5320ded02294dc&oe=57B04883

503 has to win it soon. To be able to keep their Chairman's program strong enough over time to win it 12 times is astounding, and to not have a national win yet is exasperating.

[cadandcookies]

I believe team 11 should have 4 RCA's listed. It isn't listed on TBA but they did win it back in NJ '05

Thank you, I'll fix that.

[Eugene Fang]

I believe team 11 should have 4 RCA's listed. It isn't listed on TBA but they did win it back in NJ '05

We're missing a lot of data from 2005... I'll be sure to correct it over the summer.

[Dancin103]

I believe team 11 should have 4 RCA's listed. It isn't listed on TBA but they did win it back in NJ '05

Sorry about that! I did pull all the data from TBA. :)

503 has to win it soon. To be able to keep their Chairman's program strong enough over time to win it 12 times is astounding, and to not have a national win yet is exasperating.

Yeah! And that's not even including their district wins...

[wireties]

1296 video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Akcs7VJPXo&sns=fb