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FIRSTStar(TM) Rating

In thinking about how many teams won multiple regionals this year (and last year actually), I would like to have a one stop shopping list of the various regional & national award winners.

Does anyone have a spread sheet or a database with every award given at every regional FIRST has held?

How about just a list of Championships?

I am thinking about pulling together a sort of "Hall of Fame" document (perhaps as a white paper or perhaps a section on this website).

Maybe a better name would be a "FIRSTStar(TM) Rating" something like MorningStar does for mutual funds.

The idea would not be to rate teams or robots in any one year but to let folks get the picture of a teams historic performance.

I am thinking that one way of looking at the data would be to click on a team number and see the awards that that team has won over the years.

Another way would be to allow you to pick a criteria and compare teams based on that criteria (e.g. list the top 20 teams in terms of winning the Leadership in Controls Awards or list the top 20 teams in terms of winning regionals, etc.).

Once we have a database, it may be possible to have build your index type querries (e.g. list the top 20 teams that have been Rookie All-Stars and have been Chairman's Award winners or Finalist).

I think that this would be a worthy thing to keep up because FIRST is growing so fast that many really inspirational teams are popping up all around the country and we really have very little way of learning who they are and in what way they are great.

What do you think?

Joe J.

P.S. (I am addicted to these silly P.S.'s ) This came up at this time because my management was interested in knowing how many regionals our team has won over the year -- in fact, I didn't know and had to think hard about out to get the sums to come out right (7).

The next natural question is "Who else has won a lot of regionals and how many have they won?" I have no answer to this question. Shooting from the hip, I think Kingman (60) has won 6 (maybe more), Beatty/Hammond (71) has won 6 that I can count, I think Cheesy Poofs (254) have one 6 as well. Beyond that my brain gets even more foggy. There may be more teams that have won 6. How many have won 5 or 4 or 3 or 2 or even 1? We (or at least I) don't know! This is where the FIRSTStar Rating service would be a very useful service to have around.
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