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Re: The threepeat
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Originally Posted by tkwetzel
Team 79 won it at UCF this year, making it the third year in a row.Team 236 won it at UTC this year, also making it their third year in a row.
Warning, This may offend you but please try and keep an open mind and carefully read ever thing I am saying and provide me with some reasons why or why not the system should or should not be changed.


In all honesty I think a 3rd win by a team in 3 years is a big slap in the face to all the other teams competing there.

Now I know I'm going to catch some flak for this one, but that was just my first thought when I heard 236 won at UTC. I love team 236 and all, but wow.. just wow.. Shouldn't we give someone else a chance?
(And for the record, my team was not at UTC so this is an unbiased opinion)

I know that The Chairman's award is the most prestigious award in FIRST, but this brings up a point.

Should last years awards be a considering factor when deciding a winner for non technical award from year to year or even event to event in the same year?
For us, we won the Radio Shack award this year at both Rochester, and NJ, which was quite a shock within itself, but the judges for these technical awards go by the results of one Regional, so that shouldn't be changed in my opinion.

I know that know one can not win chairman's in 2 regionals in one year if I am not mistaken, but why can they 2 or 3 years in a row. Should there be a limit before you have the honor to submit one the next time around?

There are a lot of teams that inspire and change the culture, and I think for this year at least the way things worked out, that the winner of the Championship Event Chairman's is going to be really hard to determine and I wish the judges the best of luck.

I'm not trying to say that the teams that won the Chairman's this year for the 2nd or 3rd time in a row are not deserving of it, but like I said.. I just saw it as a slap in the face to all the other well distinguished teams at UTC when 236 won it for the 3rd time in 3 years.

I don't know... This post may be deleted at a future time, but I just want to see what everyone thinks about it.
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