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Originally Posted by Cyberphil
I completely agree. It seems very unfair to any team. I barley knew we could have oher people vote on the award, let alone tell other people about it. I was confused as to why autodesk did it this way this year, and hopefully they change it for next year.
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It's been this way for a while now. Even the Autodesk Inventor Excellence in Design award was a voting contest back in 2008 (To determine the top 6 to be judged in Atlanta).
I understand that the amount of FIRST liasons which Autodesk has is relatively small. Seriously, it's only about a handful of people who end up reviewing the awards. They have enough to deal with...
I am not saying that it is the best or the right way to do it, but it's the most currently feasible way, with the resources they have. From what I've seen over the years, on the regional level, it doesn't matter anyways. Often there aren't that many teams at a single regional who apply and the winner is almost always very deserving and is usually a great call made by the viewers. I'm glad that there isn't a voting process at World Champs, because I agree, I think this process would be highly tainted if so.
I would love to see the Autodesk Excellence in Design Award for 3D Modeling some day become big enough that it is judged on the regional level along with animation. It's cool to see the other team's submissions at world champs and online, once released. However, I wish I could see more at the regional level. Once they start assesing it at the regional level, I think they will be shocked to see the amount of participants increase. This is not only good for Autodesk being a main sponsor, but for the teams as well, who are able to take a lot from it.
Sure I might be biased, being an Autodesk junkie on our team, but I wish that the message was spread wider about the voting and the competitions themselves. You think that as a world-wide sponsor, FIRST would be sure that they announced the animation and design entry process at every regional. Even just as a slide on the board reminding people where to vote...