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Re: Chairman's Award -- is the bar too high now?
Do I think the bar is too high? I think impossible dreams and lofty goals are a key part of FIRST; the "top" being extremely far away only pushes people farther. The only people that would be "pushed away" from the Chairman's Award because it was given to 341 would be teams that were so full of themselves to think that they were "almost there" when they still have a ways to go. Everyone else, with a realistic and grounded view of themselves, knows that they were not at that level, and hopefully are now working to reach it.
I'm beginning to wonder though, if "Winning Championship Chairman's" is a realistic goal for any team made in the last 5-10 years anymore. The "line" of extremely successful Chairman's teams is so, so long, that even if everyone was stopped right now from doing any more Chairman's work, you'd take 10 Championships to award it to all of the many teams that deserve it. It's a little depressing that if you start a real push for Chairman's when you're a student, you can guarantee yourself that your team will not win it in your high school career.
Just my thoughts.
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