Pretty cool story. Sounds
alot like ours! After being on the drive team this year, I understand more clearly how it feels to be knocked out of eliminations and not have to worry about a next match. So I just go sit up in the stands with only the final award ceremony to wait for. (though there was tons of dancing to be done before that would get under way)
All the final awards pass us by, I thought we would get the Engineering Inspiration award but we didn't get that.
The Chairman's Award comes and they start with the vague descriptions that nearly every team has probably done. I noticed that in one of thier sentences they mentioned the team's "ventures" (we're a venture crew in the Boyscouts) "It could just be a coincidence" I thought. They went on to describe other stuff that a normal team would do for the award. It was the usual, "We did that but some other teams could have done that too." Then it comes to the big things, they say how the team that is winning the award has plans for contacting and starting teams with Indian reservations, at that point, we all knew it was us they were talking about but we were in shock.
All they could get out of thier last sentence before we interupted them was "These Scalawags have..." By then, everybody in the stands knew it was us and we were making lots of noise. The announcer had to stop. "We're building the suspence," he said as one of our team members replied, "I wonder who it is?!"
It's been such an amazing year for my team. We won Imagery, Woodie Flowers, and the Chairman's Award. We haven't done this good since our rookie year.
We didn't have the funds to go to Atlanta this year but thanks for the inspirational story! It's nice to hear another team is having the same problems (fundraising) and the same luck as us.