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Re: Two Chairmans Winners Per Event

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Originally Posted by Kyle Love
I agree. If theres more then one, it takes away some of the prestige...
I have to say, mostly because of logistics, I agree with the only one statement... Plus its a very big award, and in a sense the limelight belongs to the best of the best... but nowadays, the choices arent easy, there are LOTS of good teams, lots of deserving teams...

So I have a thought (seeing the other side of the coin) about the prestige... for those of you that remember, there used to only be one "national champion". FIRST decided teamwork was a better way to go, and why not have more "winners"... so why should this be so different with Chairmans? What if there are two teams that we should be emulating at the regionals? or two teams in the world that are great rolemodels? or even stranger, what if two teams wanted to work together for Chairmans?

I think when FIRST introduced the concept of 2 and then 3 championship winners, we were all hesitant, and very reluctant. You were no longer had the "best FIRST Robot", you had to rely on someone else... you had "one of the Best Robots". Maybe with the size of FIRST, with the number of phenomenal teams out there, this needs to be rethought?

I dunno... just trying to see the opposing viewpoint.
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