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Originally posted by TKatsAniMentor
I think it is strange that they are giving less awards at Nationals now. I know that the regional awards adds more recognition to the teams, but is it really a better route? I guess, it could have been if Autodesk had supported it more. Our animation leader went to vote at our first regional (St. Louis) and he said that there was a little room with a tiny TV with the animations on auto-repeat. No one from Autodesk was present. Also, a team didn't even have to be at the regional to win the award. Team 74 (which I have never seen this animation) won several and Gunn Robotics also won a few. I don't really think that is fair. If you have to submit your chairman's award entry to ONLY 1 regional...the same should be for the animation. To top all this off, FIRST didn't even show the winning animations at most regionals.
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at this point I kind of doubt animation can be submitted this way because of the fact that student judging is so inaccurate. I think the main thing autodesk wanted out of regional animation awards was to get rid of all of the really crappy ones. At this point there would be some regionals with only four or five animations at themif you did it the way you suggest, and this doesnt exactly promote animation, does it? I do agree that it is a poor system, they definitely need to improve, like make it so you cant win at more than 1(but then how would they do regionals at the same time as one another?) or something. I also kind of think its ridiculous that we won at 3 regionals, thats kind of too much, considering that we werent officially at great lakes.