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Originally Posted by D.J. Fluck
There are so many deserving individuals out there that really deserve that award...im thrilled to see the addition of the regional WFA.
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/edit - Just saw Karthik's similar post - but read me anyway, for I mention the chairman's award as well/
I agree that the regional WFA is a good idea, as is the regional Charman's award. But it seems wrong to make the current year's regional chairman's and WFA award winners the only ones eligible for the championship honors.
The Chairman's and WFA are both like lifetime achievement awards. It makes sense from FIRST's point of view that the teams that win the CA at the regional are the teams that the national CA winner should be picked from. The winner will be the proverbial best of the best.
From the regional's point of view, however, it doesn't make any sense at all to pick the same team for the Chairman's award, or mentor for the WFA year after year, even if the team or mentor is still a dynamo. It makes more sense from the regional judges' points of view to spread these awards around, to be able to recognize all of the deserving teams and mentors.
The rub is that the team or mentor each regional "sends" to nationals to compete for the CA or WFA might not be the team or mentor from the regional that has the best chance of winning at nationals.
Fortunately, this problem has an easy solution. All we have to do is allow a team that has won a regional chairman's award in the last three or five (or whatever number is decided to be within the judge's workload) years to compete for the national CA. Allow any past regional WFA winner who is nominated again to compete for the national award.
What do you think?