[Racer26]

As I said, I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing, using old accomplishments. I would prefer to see current accomplishments, though.

I'm going to pick on 1114 here for a minute, just because they're the perennial RCA team that I have the most experience with.

1114 has won RCAs 6 out of the last 7 years, and they currently have their 2009, 2010, and 2011 Chairman's videos on their website, and the 2012 one is expected to be posted soon.

If you watch the three videos that are there, there is a TON of re-used footage, and re-used accomplishments. The 2012 video (which I saw at the GTR East regional after they won the RCA with it), has many of the same accomplishments covered.

I would agree that older accomplishments ARE getting smaller mentions as time passes, which I think is the correct approach, though one in specific struck me as kind of odd this year.

1114 is responsible for FLL kits getting into every Niagara district elementary school. That's a fantastic accomplishment, and one to be proud of for sure. As someone who didn't know that this accomplishment was actually a couple years old already, Karthik's speeches, and their 2012 video made it seem to me as though that was an accomplishment this year. I don't think their intention was to mislead, but I certainly assumed that it was a 2012 accomplishment, until I started watching their older Chairman's videos. Perhaps such things should be presented with dates or something. I don't really know, maybe I'm picking on something that is by-and-large a non-issue.

I'm not saying that they don't continue to do great things, or don't deserve to be winning RCAs perennially, in fact, I know it to be quite the opposite. They ARE probably the most deserving team in the region. They DO continue to sustain many of the efforts mentioned, and they DO continue to do new and exciting things in the community-at-large. I just don't like the feeling I get from the videos that seem to make it sound as though certain accomplishments are 'current' when they are older, whether or not that interpretation was intentionally easy to make.