Blitz Awards List (so far):
Here's the latest list of awards that may be offered at the Blitz (the reasoning behind this thread
). Because I'm making these trophies at work in the middle of the night... I have to keep it to 15 awards. So if you have a good idea, one award must go. But please, feel free to crititisize:
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Beantown Blitz Awards
2004 Beantown Blitz: Champion
- This is awarded to the three teams who win the Beantown Blitz competition
2004 Beantown Blitz: Finalist
- This is awarded to the three teams who are runners-up in the Beantown Blitz competition
2004 Beantown Blitz: #1 Ranked Team
- This is awarded to the team who ranks #1 after the Qualifying Matches are completed (using qualifying point averages only)
2004 Beantown Blitz: The Human Element
- This award recognizes the team who, over the course of the competition, has the highest average of purple or yellow balls scored in the goal (excluding multiplier). It is assumed that the team with the highest average of balls (not points) has the best human playing ability.
*2004 Beantown Blitz: Imagery
- This award celebrates attractiveness in engineering and outstanding visual aesthetic integration from the machine to team appearance.
2004 Beantown Blitz: Play of the Day
- This award will be judged by the people at the scoring table who will be taking notes on the best robot-plays during the course of the competition. A winner will be selected when all the qualifying matches have been performed.
*2004 Beantown Blitz: Boston Holl-a
- This award celebrates extraordinary enthusiasm and spirit through exceptional partnership and teamwork (team spirit).
*2004 Beantown Blitz: Engineering Elegance
- This award celebrates an elegant and advantageous machine feature. This award recognizes any aspect of engineering elegance including, but not limited to: design, wiring methods, material selection, programming techniques, and/or unique machine attributes. The criteria for this award are based on the team’s ability to concisely verbally describe, as well as demonstrate, this chosen machine feature.
*2004 Beantown Blitz: Operation Inspiration
- This award celebrates a team’s outstanding success in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering and engineers, both within their school, as well as their community. Criteria include: the extent and inventiveness of the team’s efforts to recruit students to engineering, the extent and effectiveness of the team’s community outreach efforts, and the measurable success of those efforts.
*2004 Beantown Blitz: ‘Wicked Awesome’ Robot
- This is an award for the coolest robot. Not necessarily the most decorative robot, or the one that can do the most… just the one that makes people stop and say: "wow, now THAT'S A COOL ROBOT!"