[Justin]

Hi Everyone,

I'd just like to say that maybe if we cut some of the Hollywood crap out of the awards show then we would have time to recognize actual achievement of teams. What do I mean...do we really need that guy riding in on a motorcycle?? And telling us about how great he is because he owns it and a really cool car?? Is that the message that FIRST is trying to send?? Be an engineer you'll get cool stuff?? I'm sorry but as a long time participant of FIRST that left a really bad taste in my mouth. To me that seems anti-everything Dean/Woodie stand for. Also the awards ceremony is over produced especially for the audience that watches it...if it really were a national audience fine but it is primarily FIRST people who watch. Also something needs to be done about Dean and his speeches...someone should enforce a time limit. The Google guy's rambling didn't help either. Also let's just play the finals and not have all of this jumping back and forth. Just a few thoughts.

Justin