[ngreen]

Frankly I'd take either...

This is talking from regional experience with both.

Last year we won regional champion which was awesome for us as rookies. We were so into the competition is was a lot of fun and our team was completely clicking. And I know national awards are like 100 times better easily (National Rookie All-Star) than any regional award.

This year we are still doing good. Creativity award and 11th in seeding but everything hasn't quite been clicking like last year. We've struggled a lot more, learned a lot more at times, and worked way harder than last year at time(if it was possible). But everything just really never got to come together quite as well as last year. It was the whole second year after a really good first year thing just hard to match up to expectations. But I couldn't be prouder of my team. Through all this trouble they have managed to put in the effort to make a difference. I know this seemed hard on the everyone at times. Winning the regional chairman was the reward they recieved for this effort. I know they were really inspired by this in that they did get some recognition for their hard work and the whole year started to look a lot better (don't take it as our year was horrible, just not as smooth as the previous).

Now being inspired both through winning and the spirit of FIRST I don't know which has made the biggest impact on me. I still am definitely driven by the competition but can tell I really enjoy the chances to pass on the knowledge to others.

So everything else the same: Chairman's trophy is better (and probably has higher resale value..j/k) so I stick with Chairman's.

BTW - I will take any trophy they hand out. They are all so shiny.