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I've actually not found the feedback form to be very useful in previous years, but it was something...and I don't like that it was removed. I agree with those above who point out that they want feedback about the entire effort, not just the presentation. Prior to this year, our submissions have been rather weak, thus the usefulness of the feedback form may have something to do with the judges not wishing to be overly critical...I wish they would have been, though.

I planned to view my team's presentation at Palmetto just to offer an additional perspective while they honed the presentation for North Carolina - but the judges were not informed that my presence was permitted in addition to the team of three, thus it would have cost us one of the presentation team members. So we essentially received no feedback beyond the perceptions of the presenters themselves...which we always get. That part of it ended up working out for the better, because our presentation team completely re-did the presentation on their own anyway, and it was so creative and awesome that it actually brought tears to my eyes when they told me what they did!

Summary - (1) bring back an enhanced feedback form that actually describes your strengths and weaknesses, and possibly even benchmarks where the judges considered your "performance" on a continuum that includes the "performance" of the winning team. (2) draft a single overall summary document and copy to all the teams that participated in chairman's with best practices seen and with observations that could use improvement. (3) Communicate rule changes to the judges better, so we all get to take advantage of these kinds of opportunities.