[Leibniz13]

Some great thoughts so far. A couple of things to add into the consideration:

1. Certainly winning some game should not be THE reason, or the MAIN reason we engage in outreach. It would be oversimplified to imagine that we must choose one or another motive, when all manner of human enterprises are a conglomeration of motives.

2. I also agree that we must not oversimplify the kind of rubric used. If we allow that judges already manage, however, to somehow objectively compare and contrast a wide variety of Chairman's submissions, though, we should allow the possibility of:
a) making those comparisons to greater place values than just the two categories of "1 winner" and "n non-winners", if they can look at a set of 100and judge entry #7 better than #1 through #n, then they could do it for any smaller set of #1 through #n after they take #7 out of contention, and so on (or rank some as a tie)
b) rendering the same kind of thinking they already use as capable of being formed into a rubric, and show the scores rendered (why is this less achievable than, say, Olympic gymnastics?)
c) allowing the possibility that some portion of whatever rubric be a category like "innovation" or "creativity" or something similar.

3. Whatever the rubric created, and whatever the number of place values might be added to the ranking, the practice of making the comparison process more transparent to the other teams would magnify the value of the role modeling done by winning teams. How can they be role models to inspire the rest of us if their games and the score values given in judging are a secret? How could we learn to play hoops like NBA players if we couldn't watch and study their playing (in theory, I suck at basketball)? How could we ever become better at any game or sport or area of study or test of human ability if we were never told which parts count for higher evaluation scores?

4. No, I don't know quite what such a universal set of metrics would look like, that's why I need all the people on here who are smarter than me to help me figure one out.