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Originally posted by Ryan Dognaux
A rookie team should be eligible to win the Regional Chairman's Award, but let's face it... do most rookie teams have a chance?? Most probably don't even really know what FIRST is really about yet. This brings up another question - did a rookie team win Chairman's Award at a regional last year??.. just curious. It's just highly unlikely that a rookie team is going to win the Chairman's Award. Now, if they are this awesome ideal FIRST team right off the bat then more power to them, but most rookie teams take a year or even 2 years to really get going. Why FIRST made this new rule... I don't know, it seems kinda silly to me. But yes, Rookie teams should be eligible to win the Chairman's Award.
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I totally agree. Everyone should be allowed to compete for the chairmans award, but in reality like Ryan said, they have no idea what to expect or what the competition is going to be like. A kid from a rookie team told me last year "Wow, when we got done with our robot I really thought we had a really good one and a winning robot..." (To some extent like that) "...but when we got here and see all of these veterans, it makes our robot look bad." I told him, not to compare yourself to another team, but just to go out and do what you can do. Being a rookie/2nd year team is a major learning experience. You really have no idea what to expect or what level the competition is at. That comes over time.
By allowing the rookie teams to compete in the chairmans award competition, they start to develop the experience and understand more of what they can do. With that experience and a little time, that could lead to a chairmans award for that team somewhere down the road.