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Originally Posted by 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.
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Good example for this one a particular team last year was mentoring 7 other teams last year with at least 2 or 3 lego teams and worked thier butts off for the community, they had very little time after that due to the fact they were either working on the bot or presenting to another group and so they get the usuall notebook ready (limited in resources) and come to realize the judges don't even take hardly a glance at the notebook which includes statistics and other data showing that this team has taken leaps and bounds towards completing Chairmans prerequisites. Come to find out they used an outdated old website that the team didn't have time to update (seeing as thier webmaster was thier lead programmer and electrical guy (plus forum person etc..)) . so in video and other things it really limited teams who would work in the community and yet didn't have the time/resources to devote to things like videos etc. so they didn't have the extras and as a result that year lost chairmans and got shafted despite the fact both the winning team and a few of the losing teams definately deserved at least mention.
As far as the videos we do (when we have money) are produced usuallyto go towards doing stuff in the community like educating fundraising little stuff like that that helps the community understand... at least that's its point with us.