[Koko Ed]

FIRST has been making some improvements to the animation competition (remember a couple years ago it was only rewarded on the national level) but it is getting somewhat stale (i think more for the 30 second time limit than the subject matter. There are some clever concepts out there even if FIRST only rewards straight and narrow presentations on the national level (just like the Grammys).
Personally I'd like to see the Autodesk Visualization competition scrapped for the opportunity for teams to create a five to 10 minute video that tells each teams story that could be shown during downtime (like in the morning, during lunchtime, between the award pesentation, ect.) and part o fthe presentation is using both Inventor and 3D Studio Max instead of some 30 second format that hardly does the effort justice.