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Originally posted by AmyBeth330
Maybe it's just me, but it gets really super annoying hearing "You are all winners". It bothered me when i was in preschool and the teachers would say it, and it bothers me now when dean kamen says it. Chairman's award is special because it is so selective. These teams have done something that deserves recognition, and to classify them with teams who simply have an outstanding robot cheapens their recognition. That's my opinion.
Now, for all you believers in "everyone's a winner", think of a Chairman's Hall of Fame as remembering the teams who truly understand the concept of "everyone's a winner".
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Why does anyone have to be a winner?
In my opinion, I think too much emphasis is placed on awards and seeding and everything else.
On one hand, I definitely see the need for competition, as it's some innate human characteristic. But, on the other hand, competition isn't the ultimate goal that we're after through all of this.
A Hall of Fame, fundamentally, stratifies a community into subclasses that probably ought not exist. In FIRST, there already exist certain classes that are a fact of life. If it's possible, I'd seek to avoid the further diversification of FIRST teams and participants. It all seems to fly in the face of what FIRST is really about.