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Originally Posted by MARS_James
I feel the cultural change awards (the ones you can only win once) should not count towards the points for an event but as a flat bonus point added to the teams average.
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I like this idea a lot. It makes more sense for the way we have set district fantasy up, and makes these awards much more important. After all, teams try to win Chairman's in a
season rather than an
event. Robot-wise, though, a team tries to win an
event. I think this also solves the inter-district play debate. Count robot performance and non-culture awards on an event basis, average across all district events a team plays at (including other districts), then add the bonus points for the culture awards: DCA, EI, and RAS. This gives an identical point pool to all teams regardless of the district they're playing in.
Only one issue with this needs to be resolved before we can make it an official rule: in some rare instances, teams win the same award twice.
NEVER does this happen with Chairman's, but Rookie All Star and possibly Engineering Inspiration can be handed out to the same team at multiple district events. 6012 won a Rookie All Star at both district events the competed at last season.
Perhaps count the culture award flat bonus only once. If a team wins two RAS, give them the points for one. You could perhaps only count points for the highest culture award achieved (i.e. points for Chairman's only, not both Chairman's and EI) but I would disagree with that because a team that wins both of those awards, in my opinion, deserves more points.
Let's get the discussion rolling, folks, so we can figure out this rule (and others) before drafting season begins.