[Cory]

Originally Posted by Kris Verdeyen

Seems like it would - a National Creativity (or Quality, or Chairman's) award, of which there is only one, is worth a heck of a lot more than a regional Creativity (or Quality, or Chairman's) award, of which there are many. Similarly, I'd feel more proud of a robot that won a robot award at a large regional than I would of one that won at a small regional, at least in retrospect. At the regional itself, I'd most likely just be pumped. Of course, all I ever go to is small regionals, so I really wouldn't know.

As far as the rest of this issue goes, I'd have to say that I don't think we have too many awards unless we can't figure out what to base the award on. If, when we carefully define the parameters for an award, we discover that there's another award that's awfully close to it, perhaps we should decide to scrap or change one or the other.

Obviously awards won at nationals are going to be more valuable to a team than the same award at a regional.

I meant that if I win xx award at regional xyz, the fact that 20something odd other teams also won an award really wouldn't take away from the fact that I won an award.