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Re: How do you feel about how the Auto desk award winners were deiced?

We have had exactly the same thoughts roaming around in our heads at the beginning of the season. And I still think that this peer voting can cause technicalities. We are really enthused about winning but we wonder about how teams vote. Everyone gets one vote, I think it may be better if a team as a whole gets one vote. Otherwise, what stops a team from creating dummy sites of people (say parents, teachers, or even people that are not part of FIRST) that cast votes for their team. I am not accusing any teams of doing that, but it is a problem that may come up one year. I think the way the award was before was better, personally.

We had a thread earlier in the year where we discussed all of it. Not sure where it is though.

(and thank you so much team 342!)
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