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Awards
Posted by Janna.

Student on team #349, The RoBahamas, from International Academy and Ford Motor Company.

Posted on 9/26/2000 3:03 PM MST


In Reply to: The Naysayer yet again... posted by Nate Smith on 9/26/2000 2:33 PM MST:



:...one of the awesome things about getting an award
:at nationals is being able to say that out of
:270+ teams, YOUR team was the one that brought
:home the trophy.

Ok, I have a comment on that point...it seems to me that the only people who would be dissatisfied are the winners. And for me there are two kinds of winnners: the actual competition winners and the judged awards.

The actual competition winners should win in the end anyway, if they have the best robot, so technically they'd still be the best in the nation. And instead of saying you were 'fifth at nationals', a team might be able to say 'division champions at nationals'. Wouldn't that sound better?

And for judged awards...one for each division would make for more winners. If we keep the same number of awards as FIRST grows larger and larger, the number of 'losers' will just keep growing. I think it's important to keep it somewhat proportional so that awards aren't seen as completely unreachable, especially for rookie teams. After all, I know our team would be too busy celebrating a judged award to worry about who else won and whether or not we could have beat them for it.

So, yeah, I am all for regionalizing, and I think the awards are more of a bonus than a drawback.

Janna
Team 349 - The Robahamas!


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