[Michael R. Lee]

Competitions are the result of whether you got lucky or not. In 2002, my High School team was lucky to go on to win in our division, muchless placing as Finalists. 311 picked us, the reason.... we beat them at KSC that year and had a good bot that they wanted then. But liek to pick, some teams jsut get lucky on who they are allied with.

Chairman's Award shows in most cases that here is a team who is an example of FIRST values and ideas, a memebr of the community, etc.... yeah medals and the other awards are nice but really the only teams that have any sort of "bragging rights" from year to year are Chairman's Award winners. If you win a competition, its only good until next season. And who wouldn't like to go to championship every year with out worrying to qualify?