[P.J.]

Originally Posted by moogboy

Also, I strongly support the no awards for third event teams thing you just mentioned. I'm not sure if that's something that could be requested or what? I know that my team wants to start grooming younger students in the interview process, maybe we could ask to be interviewed but not considered? I'll bring this up to my mentors at the first opportunity.

While this is commendable on your part, I don't know if the judges would even allow you to not be considered for awards. But training younger students is definitely a good idea for a third event. We are also going to Bedford as our third district, and I really hope to completely switch around who does what.

One way I'm looking at is that students who did well throughout the season will get "rewarded" at Bedford. For example, I'll be sending a new student down for alliance selections so that they can get the experience, and I'll be picking who that is based on who the best scout throughout the season was. And we might move a student who has worked really hard and dedicated a lot of time to this season into the pit crew.

So while the third district does have its downsides, there are a lot of good ways to use it to better your team.