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Originally Posted by Nathan Streeter
It is about celebrating the role models around us... and I had this same objection until I tried thinking about it in more dimensions. I think this celebratory aspect is actually being improved by the advent of districts... In New England there will now be 9 Chairmans, 9 EI, 9 RAS, 18 DL, and 9 WF winners... at the District event level. This pool will get paired down a bit more at DCMP before joining an enormous pool of applicants at CMP that are paired down even more. FIRST went from 2 tiers of awards to 3 tiers. We're upset that the "DCMP-tier" is smaller than the "Regional-tier," when they've also made the lowest tier bigger. All-in-all I think this is better... More people will win awards, then there will be another level of distinction (winning at DCMP), before the FIRST-wide winners are determined.
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From what I see from the submission criteria right now, it looks like neither the DL or WF will be awarded at the individual district events. It looks like they will only be awarded at the DCMP event for each district. This truly reduces the visibility of these awards and the number of people who will get recognition. Personally I have never been at an event where the WF nominees were brought onto the field before the award was given... and even more so the DL nominations are not recognized either, only the finalists selected at each Regional.