[Gabriel]

Personally, I thought that the Chairman's award was becoming more about the presentation and less about what the team had actually accomplished. Teams were putting huge amounts of time and money into getting that award, and thats fine, but there are plenty of teams that are just as worthy of the award but don't have the resources to compete on the same level and I think that because they didn't have the resources to do a major production they either ignored the chairman's award altogether. Something like the chairman's award, the highest honor in FIRST, and a representation of everything FIRST stands for HAS to be an even playing field, otherwise FIRST becomes hypocritical.