hold on guys, your getting too worked up over this. The rookie award will obviously go to a rookie team who hasn't sent an animation before. The judging is ONLY done on rookie teams for this award, thus, a team like mine, who has submitted many animations before, wouldn't be eligible for this award. The team that won the award won because they were the best of the rookies. It has nothing to do with making it past regionals. Btw, congrats to 955 on the win
