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Originally Posted by Ed Law
I actually did laugh out loud when I saw this.
"Team A creates and publishes a scouting database compiling statistical data from competitions, and the database is downloaded and used by other Teams"
There are only a couple of teams that publish scouting databases. There are a few more if you include scouting apps. I know my previous team did mention the scouting database as part of the Community Service Slide. I also know they never claimed the other teams that downloaded the file as being "mentored" or "assisted" in their chairman's presentation.
So it is either (a) some team did claim that or (b) somebody thinks that a team like ours had claimed that but not sure so adding this clarification will make sure it does not happen. Either way it is sad we have to come to that.
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Or, that scenario now falls under the new category of
Providing Published Resources and it doesn't actually have anything to do with previous teams.
This isn't FIRST "cracking down" on what criteria need to be met to win a Chairman's Award. The CA has always been rather up to interpretation (even more so in the recent years) and this is simply a way to find some sort of common ground for CA submissions.