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Originally posted by oneangrydwarf
I didn't really think that people were anti-chairmans and beacuse of that i reworded what i said.
Sorry about that.
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I'm all for doing the Chairman's Award. I just don't think it should be made mandatory for all teams. I know some smaller teams have real difficulty just putting a robot on the field, so how can they be expected to put out lots of effort to spread FIRST? And if they're not putting out that effort, what's the point of requiring them to put in a Chairman's submission? It won't be very good, and it's just more stuff for the judges to have to read through. I don't think requiring Chairman's submissions will increase participation, either... it'll just increase the number of submissions, not the quality of submissions. Even my team has had trouble getting stuff together to submit for the Chairman's Award, and we're 6-year vets with a 20-member team. We just never have enough active members to build a robot, raise money, and do something for the Chairman's Award. Hopefully that will change, but I don't think mandatory submissions would really change anything.