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Originally Posted by angelah
That is one of four requirements:
■ This team seems like a “Chairman’s Award team in the making.” (Community activities,
leadership, vision, spirit, etc.)
■ The team is a true partnership between school or organization and sponsors.
■ The team understands what FIRST is really trying to accomplish – realizes that technical stuff is
fun, challenging, and offers a future.
■ This team has built a robot appropriate to the game’s challenges.
What you are describing, to me, is the Highest Rookie Seed Award, which I assume they won if they were the highest ranked rookie. The Rookie All-Star, from my understanding (and the Awards section of the manual), is more of a rookie version of the Chairman's Award.
(I wasn't at the event, obviously; I just looked this up to find out whether Rookie All-Star was that different at a regional than at our district events.)
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Section 6.2 of the Admin Manual gives a list of all the awards.
Highest Rookie Seed is described as "Celebrates the highest-seeded rookie
team at the conclusion of the qualifying rounds" and is selected by "Robot Performance", not the Judges. This is a non-subjective award and the OP's team could not have won this award at Lone Star since they were ranked below the rookie team that did win that award. Probably, the only thing the Judges have to do with this award is high-fiving the winners and possibly helping to write the script for introducing them.
What you have quoted is from Section 6.14.4 which is specifically for the Rookie All-Star Award.
I noticed that the section of the Admin Manual on Non-Submitted Judged Awards (6.11) does not really say how the Judges are supposed to collect the information on the teams. It also does not say that the Judges have to collect information on all the teams. I would hope that this is in the training material that the Judges are given since there is no schedule for the teams to meet with the Judges that I am aware of. If it isn't clear how and when teams are supposed to communicate their efforts and accomplishments to the Judges, it will lead to a lot of frustration.