[EricH]

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

Someone else I was talking to said that the Hawaii regional opened up Chairmans to rookies, because most of the teams were rookies. Is there any truth to that statement?

I wasn't there, but I would say probably not. The RCA is defined as a non-rookie award. (Now, for an all-rookie event--that's another story. Maybe one of the Israeli teams could say what happened there during the pilot year, when the closest veteran team was in England.)