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Originally Posted by GaryVoshol
It's not replaced by Highest Rookie Seed. There's always a HRS, unless there just aren't any rookies at the event.
The optional part is that if none of the rookies at the event demonstrate the qualities needed for the award, the RAS is not given out. My guess is that this was written so that if there was an event with just one rookie team, that team wouldn't be guaranteed a RAS award and the advancement that goes with it. They have to earn it.
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In all my travels, only twice has no Rookie All-Star award been given out:
-Palmetto 2015 (no rookies present)
-UNC Asheville District 2016 (the only rookie, 5854, had already won RAS at an earlier district event and was thus ineligible to win it there; they won Rookie Inspiration).
In short, it's rare.