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Originally Posted by DavidGitz

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.

I feel like this merging was really under-publicized. Most of the teams I talked to didn't know that was happening. I'm sure we all just missed some blog post or something but I feel like it could have been better communicated.