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Originally Posted by cgmv123
The number of awards given out is related to the the number of teams interviewed and the deliberation time required. Twice the awards means twice the deliberation time, which either means longer deliberation periods or more judges.
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There was actually More deliberation time required this year, due to the merging of the sub-division fields. I judged on Tesla. We followed the normal process, and eventually got down to a team pick for each award, just like any other Regional. Then, we did a merge, which consisted of deliberating for each award the team from each field should get. This took approx. 1.5 hours for our 2 fields, Archimedes and Tesla, and probably similar timing for other divisions.
I think the main reason why they decided to do the merge was to make the award ceremony less chaotic, though I could be wrong.