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Originally Posted by Molten
To put it simply, I don't care about them. If my sponsor is going to care about trophy size, maybe they shouldn't be sponsoring a robotics team. My experience is that the companies that care about petty things such as trophy size, generally are going to sponsor the football team anyway. Those that sponsor robotics care more about the students then the picture opportunities.
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In my mind, the goal of FIRST is to pull as many people into the program as possible, as the only way to change the culture is to have the people that form the culture involved. To pull people into FIRST you need a "hook"; for some people the hook is we build robots, for some people the hook is we help the community and for some people the hook is that we win big trophies.
By making the trophies all the same size it tells an outside observer looking at a trophy case that we celebrate the robot awards just as much as the Chairman's award. The Chairman's and EI trophies should certainly be different and "better" (whether that be larger or "nicer") than the other trophies. This allows us to easily show to someone that these awards are more important and more celebrated in the FIRST culture than the robot awards. Personally, I also feel that the GP award should fall somewhere in size between the EI and the robot awards. GP is a core value of FIRST and is a major part of its goal to change the culture and I feel that this award is often seen as less prestigious than many of the other awards such as the robot awards.