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Re: The threepeat
I completely disagree with the notion that a team should not win Chairman's more than one year in a row at a regional event. Chairman's is about what a team has done over their entire history as a team, and it should be awarded to the team that has done the best job at it, regardless of if they did the best job the previous year. Any team can when a regional championship year after year, it just means they play hard and build good robots, well, a team should be able to win chairman's year after year if they really do the best job at it, at the regional level.
Another point, Many teams competition for chairmans are working to win it at a national level, or at least that is how it is with the robonauts, and the only way to qualify to compete for nationals chairmans award is to win it at a regional. This rule was implemented in 2003. So if the best regional teams won the award in 2003 and went on to compete at the national level, but only one of those teams won it at nationals. The next year in 2004 at the regional level, the previous years regional winners would be less likely to win the award based solely on the fact that they had one it the year before(this going by the thoughts of some people on this thread and some judges). The winning team at the regional would be the 2nd best chairmans entry because the best had won it the year before, so now at the national competition for chairmans there is the second best teams competition instead of the nations best, discluding the teams like 79 that went to a different regional to enter chairmans with the sole purpose of having a better chance to win at a different regional than one that they had one at a year before. Taking all this into account this year in 2005, i would imagine that the 2003 winners will make there return after the torch was passed to someone else during 2004, and now they are once again fully considered not by if they won the year before, but by what accomplishments they have made as a team.
In summary, i feel that at the regional level, it is completly legit and fair for the same team to win year after year as long as they truely are deserving of the award, so that the nation's best teams may be represented at the national level, and compete for the national chairman's award.
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