I think we've all attended a regional event (or multiple ones) where the same team has won the C/A many years in a row & it seems like no other team is going to have a chance.
The saving grace to this (in the eyes of the non-winning teams) is that once you win C/A at The Championship Event you are no longer eligible to win at the Regional level.
Even if we started this year & just started handing out the Championship Event C/A to every team who has won at a regional multiple times, but never won it in Atlanta, we would be here for 5+ years.
(I'm not certain how many teams have won it multiple times at the regional level, but never in The Championship Event, but it's gotta be around or even higher than 5 teams now)
This is certainly a touchy subject, seeing as we all know the teams who have won it at regional events certainly have earned it, but when a team wins it 5 years in a row in your area, your team's chances of winning it are pretty slim (but certainly not impossible) until they are out of the running by winning it in Atlanta.
Moral of the story: If your "multi-year" winning team wins at your event again this year, lobby on their behalf to every judge you see in Atlanta to choose them to win!
