[JHBurch]

I couldn't attend Nationals this year so I've been trying to find out results on the web. I've gone to the FIRST site, NASA's site, and now the chiefdelphi forums and can only find who won the competition. Not to take anything away from the newly crowned champions, but I'm disappointed that no one's asking or telling about the rest of the award winners.

This focus on the competition rankings seems to me not quite in keeping with the FIRST ideals. And I'm not picking on this Forum. FIRST provides up to the minute competition results, but if previous year's are any indication it will take them a month to post the award winners. NASA let's you see almost any match you want, but they weren't even web-casting the awards (that I could find).

Whatever happened to the idea that the Chairman's Award is truly the top honor? What about the teams that never made it to the eliminations but had such great robot features or spirit or sportsmanship or dramatic play that they were singled out as the best of the best during the awards ceremony. What about the Woodie Flower's Award winner? Don't these people and teams deserve the lime-light?

So I'm asking the great FIRST collective: what people / teams won what awards at Nationals? Please join me in extending a heart-felt congratulations to them all!