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Originally Posted by Jedi Padawan
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 that year too) 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 Come to find out they used an outdated old website that the team didn't have time to update (seeing as thier webmaster was thier lead programmer and electrical guy (plus forum person etc..))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 a team with a kickbutt website and just a few things done won that regional not to mention they had a PR person on staff who's only job is to win chairmans. 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. plus the videos we've produced usually go to 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.
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Please never say that a team is not deserving of an award they won. You can say that another team got shafted and should have been recognized, but never say that the team that won it got it only because they had a flashy website or presentation or an adult that did all the work. Definitely not gracious.