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Regional and District Championship winners have their essay/executive summary and chairman’s video posted online. It was strongly encouraged that winning teams submit a practice presentation video as well, though not every team took part in that.
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This was nice, and it'll definitely help teams in the future.
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The team is allowed an extra two minutes to present, if they so choose (5-7 minutes), though the 10 minuted total limit stayed the same.
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This is perfectly acceptable and just plain makes sense to not have 5 minutes be a super-hard limit.
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A mentor was allowed to sit in on the presentation session without counting against the 3-presenter limit. The mentor was theoretically allowed to film the session, but from what I understand that wasn’t true at all events.
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This is a good change, although I heard absolutely nothing all year from any source about the mentor being allowed to film the session.
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No formal feedback from the judges at any event.
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I still just don't understand this. There's absolutely no legitimate way for a team to gauge how a judge ACTUALLY felt the team did on not just their presentation, but their essay as well. Getting to see who 'beat' (in quotes because FIRST is trying to push not viewing Chairman's as a competition...) you is not an acceptable form of feedback at all. It doesn't tell you what your team's weakness was; and gives nothing for a team to build on in order to improve at presenting their material.