[waialua359]

When the new change was suggested to the HOF teams, I was a proponent of such a change and very glad they did.
There are TONS of great teams that do TONS of great things with their program, beyond robot build/competitions, in changing the culture of their community, State, and FIRST.

The new implemented changes will raise the bar at each event and the competitors that each team must face vs. each other. Teams that fail to win at their 1st event, will be even better at the next.

In the end, the winner at CMPS, will be the best FIRST has ever had, because the process forces teams to dig deeper and work even harder to earn the highest award in FIRST.

As I mentioned in another thread, I'd like to see FIRST award division CMPS Chairman's Awards. If FIRST truly believes that the RCA is the "highest" award a team can earn at any event, then why aren't we celebrating it with blue banners the same way we do with Robot competition winners?

*As a HOF team, we are not oblivious to the improvements that we see from teams across the World. This inspires us to continue to do more and more and more. While we are no longer preparing for RCA presentations, we do it in the form of other areas we never had the chance to do in the past in our pit. Examples include documentation of our Engineering Design process, revisit our business/sustainability plans, Outreach to our school community, and analyzing the impact the program has on our former students since we now have many graduates of our program.