[MrBydlon]

Going off of what the wonderful Team Combustion said above...

We submitted at the Lake Superior Regional and the 10,000 Lakes Regional. The different sets of judges and Chairman's competition were a huge factor.

Our presentation was "Rock Band" themed. By that I mean, our Chairman's team literally carried rock band instruments into the judge's room and said a ton of music related terms. When you see something like that, you have to have an open mind and enjoy the weirdness.

According to our Chairman's team, the judges at Lake Superior were a little surprised and kind of sort of "didn't get it" (that is not a knock on the judges! we knew what we were getting into when we decided on Rock Band). If you ask me, the other teams at that competition had more professional types of presentations and that's what the judges were expecting. Plus, the competition there was much tougher (many teams who have been doing Chairman's for 5+ years). Compare that to 10,000 Lakes were 14 teams presented and I know of at least 4 of them that had never done it before. The judges were laughing as soon as the team walked in and were very receptive to the creativity.

We changed very little between the competitions. The only change we made was in our "Sponsor partnerships" section. We added more statistics and measurable outcomes to that section. Other than that, it was basically the same.

It was really nice for our Chairman's team to have some practice at Lake Superior. We appreciate the chance to present two different times.