Call me a sucker but I kinda liked the everyone's a winner thing with participation medals. I loved being able to run home with a medal after each FTC tournament I did, because just getting there and functioning is worthy of recognition. I was really disspaointed when I just got a pin in 2008... but then things changed and stuff happened.
Of course this year I never got a bronze medal luckily, but it's still nice.
I'd be more okay with it if they brought back the gigantic trophies though. Picking up the FRC trophy, I think it was smaller than last year's FTC. Not quite as magical. Not that I'm bitter.
