[Robert Thacker-]

Originally Posted by JasJ002

There is no way to make a voting system that is non biased. Even if you were to make one person per team give a score for every other team, what would stop a team from simply getting every sister team to give them hundreds and everybody else zero's. I'm not saying that cheating would be rampant but it is peoples natural instinct to favor themselves or those close to them.

Although you are all looking for a perfect system, there is none. As long as we know how the award will be judged, teams will always be able to adapt their award to fit the criteria.

Also you do want an aesthetically pleasing design. I know for a fact that the Air Force uses programs like Inventor to prepare their Alpha prototyping. This is how you sell a product, because you cannot simply make a 2 million dollar aircraft to show off.

Overall it shouldn't matter how the award is decided, it will never be 100% fair, but this is still by far an award with one of the most spelled out definitions every year, you know exactly what to look for in a submission.

Couldn't have said it better myself.