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Originally Posted by Bkeeneykid

The problem with giving awards during breaks is a lot of teams work on their robot during the breaks. If everyone but the scouters are not there to accept the award, I feel like most of the team would feel left out. There's so many things that most of the team needs to do during an event, having them go back and forth from the stands to wherever they need to get things done at would be a pain.

Originally Posted by Foster

My experience is there is a pit crew wrenching on the robot. There is a lone, sometimes two, programmers being yelled at by the four person drive team and the pit crew. So lots of people left over to accept awards. Not thinking Chairman, but maybe Safety, controls, website, spirit, GP, build, design, etc.

Poll your team. "How upset would you be missing a design award while you are elbow deep in fixing the robot to win the next match."

Report back what they say

TV sports, dead air is deadly, lets fill it.

I think the average team, with not a lot of members or that hardly ever wins an award, would have a huge issue with this. There are no current students or mentors on team 2662 who were around the last time this team won an award and I know the majority of them would want to be present for an award, having 8 - 10 people in the pit miss it would be a big deal. That would have been 30% - 60% of our team depending on which recent year you pick.

I'm in support of awards between matches during the Semifinals and beyond at Worlds as all of the pit crews and drive teams are out near the field at that point and could go out for an award, plus the majority of teams there won an award at their Regional already to qualify for Worlds. You could possibly extend this to in between Finals matches at a District or Regional competition where robots don't go back to the pit, but I'm not a fan of awards in the break up until Eliminations start or during the Quarterfinals when a large percentage of a team could be in the pit area which may be in a totally different section of the venue.