BattleCry's Awards:
Campaign Medals - One per each team that arrives on scene
Medal of Honor - Judges' award to team that does the "most with the least"
Purple Heart - Judges' award to team that becomes most grievously injured through valiant campaign effort
Engineering Excellence - Judges' award for best overall robot design in terms of quality, creativity, and control
Noncombatant Service - Judges' award for most outstanding team spirit displayed during the finals by a team eliminated during the eighth- finals
General Staff - Judges' special recognition awards (3), criteria TBD
Awesome Offense - People's choice award to team with most scoring potential/performance
Dominating Defense - People's choice award to team with best score-neutralizing or score-denial potential/performance
Best BattleCry - Emcee's award for best spirit shown by a team during combat
Air Superiority - To the team that fields the top Payload Specialist in the Saturday contest
Top Gun - To the number one seed in qualifying
Runners-Up - To each team on the three-team alliance defeated in the final match
Victors - To each team on the three-team alliance that wins the tournament
BattleCry STAR - Special Team Appreciation & Recognition award, adult mentor award presented by team selected by STAR reviewers (see below)
BattleCry STAR
Student team members are encouraged to submit nominations for their outstanding adult mentor. These nominations are due by 30 April (electronic format preferred to
stafford@wpi.edu, 500 words or less) and will be reviewed and judged by past STAR winners. Student members of the winning team will be notified by 4 May and offered the opportunity to publicly announce their champion during the awards ceremony.
Taken from
http://www.wpi.edu/news/Events/BattleCry/updates.html.