[Alex2614]

Let me clarify some things, first of all.

The Chairman's video is a REQUIREMENT to have at the event, but its purpose is to show on the screen at the awards ceremony when you win. It is NOT judged or used as a part of the decision process. This is outlined in the manual, but also something I have been told by multiple judges and judge advisors.

Also, the video that you hand to judges needs to be a DVD, not a CD. And, it needs to be in a DVD format, as in it is playable in a standard DVD player, not just a disk with the video file on it. You need to use a software that will write it into a standard DVD format. You need software to do this, just adding a video file to a DVD in Windows Explorer will NOT be in the correct format.

The USB option is just a video file on a USB flash drive.

Secondly,

The question in the original post was about submitting the video via STIMS in the award submission, which was required last year for the first time. It was a YouTube link that you had to enter, in ADDITION to providing the physical copy of the video at competition. However, the area in STIMS where that was supposed to be was grayed out this year, so it had a section for video upload, but no way to enter it in. FIRST has said that that option would be open after the award closed, but since the award is closed, the awards submitters cannot access the submission. This is the problem that many of us are questioning.