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Originally Posted by Chris is me

Do you really mean word-for-word literally the same, or very close? Typically the announcement of a Chairman's Award is quite a bit longer than a Judge's Award, so that's confusing to me.

I don't think the judges decided that your Chairman's presentation from a previous event was so good, they would give you a second award for it at your following event. I think it's more likely that your team talked to the judges at your second event about the same things that make up your Chairman's submission, and these non-Chairman's judges believed the accomplishments merited recognition. Keep in mind that Chairman's judges and the judges that go around the pits talking to teams (nearly every other award) tend to be different people.

Yes, the announcements were word-for-word replicas, though the announcer at Purdue spoke more quickly. What confuses me is how that happened; if the judges were different people then they must have communicated between each other in some way.