These trophies are in a word, unprofessional and unrepresentitive of the amount of work teams put into competition.
If we are talking about different types of trophies I think that FIRST could make some really awesome riveted sheet metal trophies anodized gold, sliver, and bronze.
These could probably be made cheaply or for free by sponsors, would be easy to assemble and would be very unique to FIRST while looking awesome.
By the way this idea came from these:
http://www.vexrobotics.com/media/cat...-10-and-12.jpg
Regards, Bryan