| sanddrag |
25-08-2016 07:21 |
Re: [FRC Blog] District Teams attending Regionals
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Originally Posted by waialua359
(Post 1602849)
This is true for us in Hawaii and many of our team members don't care to compete there.
Certain judges forget that each year you have a different mix of students, where many new students are experiencing FRC for the 1st time. They deserve to be heard during interviews they practiced for just as much as every other team competing at an event. They don't want to be told NO interview is necessary because we know about your team already.
A different game challenge annually can affect those who have done FRC multiple seasons with different learning experiences which are worth sharing.
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Absolutely agreed. And when you have the same pool of repeat judges and volunteers, biases and perceptions don't go away year by year, even though your students do. That can be a good or a bad thing, and may or may not have any real measurable effect, but it makes a lot of teams feel as if they have capped out at their home event, and that they will never do any better there. It's always the same judges, the same teams winning the same awards, you always lose to the same teams, etc etc.
We are a great team and I feel like we could be absolute rockstars stealing the show in a place where nobody there has ever met us before, but there are certain events at which we experience what I've described above. We've even experienced it from the side of being the team that won the same awards time and again, instead of the different awards we were actually going for. I can't complain about winning a award, but it made us feel that we were not seen as a team in the running for those particular awards because we were the team for the other thing, year after year. When it comes to awards, there is a subtle "danger" and risk of being too good at certain things I suppose, in diverting attention away from other positive aspects of your program. |
