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I can honestly agree with you. I was disapointed with how the animations were treated at the Chesapeake regional. In order to view the animations you had to walk out of the field, through a long mess of hallways, up some stairs and through some museum exhibits to arrive at a small black room with a small TV where they showed the animations. Also, after they were judged we were told that 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place animations would be announced at the awards ceremony and the 1st place animation would be shown. At the awards ceremony it seemed as if they quickly announced the winner of the animation and went on to other awards. They did not announce 2nd or 3rd place and they did not show the winning animation. Animators work for 6 weeks just like the robot-builders, and it is not necessarily easier for us than them, yet we get so little respect. I would appreciate if more was done during FIRST events to show off animating.

Also, please do not read what i said above as a complaint, the Chesapeake regional was awesome overall, just very little was done towards animations.