Award winners forgotten?

[JHBurch]

I couldn't attend Nationals this year so I've been trying to find out results on the web. I've gone to the FIRST site, NASA's site, and now the chiefdelphi forums and can only find who won the competition. Not to take anything away from the newly crowned champions, but I'm disappointed that no one's asking or telling about the rest of the award winners.

This focus on the competition rankings seems to me not quite in keeping with the FIRST ideals. And I'm not picking on this Forum. FIRST provides up to the minute competition results, but if previous year's are any indication it will take them a month to post the award winners. NASA let's you see almost any match you want, but they weren't even web-casting the awards (that I could find).

Whatever happened to the idea that the Chairman's Award is truly the top honor? What about the teams that never made it to the eliminations but had such great robot features or spirit or sportsmanship or dramatic play that they were singled out as the best of the best during the awards ceremony. What about the Woodie Flower's Award winner? Don't these people and teams deserve the lime-light?

So I'm asking the great FIRST collective: what people / teams won what awards at Nationals? Please join me in extending a heart-felt congratulations to them all!

[Quain]

Well, my team, #357 won the "Delphi's Technology of Tomorrow Award" or something around that... I forget who won the animation award, but it was really good.

It's "Delphi's Driving Tomorrow's Technology Award"

230 Won it in Long Island. ;-)

[Quain]

Thx for the correction, i was tired when they announced it..

[Kris Verdeyen]

118 won the Sportsmanship award
365 won the Spirit Award
114 won the Visualization Award
60 (a Ford sponsored team) won the GM industrial design award
233 won an award (Leadership in Controls, I think)

That's about all I can remember.

[NickG.]

My team #365 (MOE) won the Team Spirit Award. It really pumped us up and were quite proud of it. Gratz to all the award winners out there

[Mark Pierce]

NASA TV (Webcast) most of the Award Ceremony, but I had other committments that kept me from seeing most of it. I did see the RoboDAWGS (Team 288) pick up the Entrepreneurship Award.

[Nate Smith]

Most of the FIRST staff is still down in Florida or on their way back, as none of their flights left until this morning(Monday). The awards page most likely needs to be hand-generated, and after the past three 14+ hour days on site for the event(we all got there an hour before the pits opened, and usually stayed close to an hour after), they're taking a few days off...

[Ken Delaney]

Buzz Team #175 won the national chairman's award. The major focus of thier presentation was the Tinker Toy league they started for third grade students in their school district. They had a remote controlled vehicle made out giant tinker toy pieces they made. It was a real eye catcher. It got my attention. I ended up talking to them for 20 minutes about the league.

[soap108]

The SOAP Team recorded the Awards onto VHS tape and have the assignment of digitizing it and posting onto our website. Also one of our teammates wrote down the Newton Divisional Award winners and the Championship Award winners...... We'll post that stuff too ASAP.

Regards,
KA-108

[Joe Menassa]

Team 121 won the Motorola Quality Award.

[JHBurch]

Originally posted by Nate Smith
Most of the FIRST staff is still down in Florida or on their way back, as none of their flights left until this morning(Monday). The awards page most likely needs to be hand-generated, and after the past three 14+ hour days on site for the event(we all got there an hour before the pits opened, and usually stayed close to an hour after), they're taking a few days off...

Nate, I appreciate your perspective and I certainly understand the need for some time off for the staff (and the teams), but I'd think if FIRST has found a way to post match results within minutes they could find a way to do the same with the award results. That the champions are easily found and the Chairman's Award winner impossible seem at odds with FIRST's message that the Chairman's Award is the highest honor a team can win.

[Chubtoad]

Originally posted by Nate Smith
Most of the FIRST staff is still down in Florida or on their way back, as none of their flights left until this morning(Monday).

Actually when we were heading back on Sunday around 9 or 10am, Woodie was online for Check in at the Airport!!! It was SOOO COOL! Cause WOODIE'S THE MAN!!! and we saw one of the members of Survivor III Africa. Crazy stuff man, Crazy stuff! Heh, I should have met up with you, we were in Newton and you could have always changed that one DQ to a winning match, which would have put us in top seed! hehe, Great job to the FIRST guys ( and ladies) it was awesome!!

[soap108]

Originally posted by JHBurch


Nate, I appreciate your perspective and I certainly understand the need for some time off for the staff (and the teams), but I'd think if FIRST has found a way to post match results within minutes they could find a way to do the same with the award results. That the champions are easily found and the Chairman's Award winner impossible seem at odds with FIRST's message that the Chairman's Award is the highest honor a team can win.

They will do it eventually.

Did you notice how fast the Einstein stage got torn down after the final match? All the computers, especially those that run the Scoring database, were all torn down in minutes. Also the master server back in the Inet tent was being disconnected.

This year and prior, the database FTP'd static files for match results and seeding. We have suggested plans for improvement- mainly dealing with live inserts of the award winners, or better? yet pushing the award winner records to a real-time server and time-releasing the data. This way the results can be pushed before the massive tear-down, yet later that night, say 9pm, all the award winners can be seen on a website, paged to your celphone, queryable via ODBC, or whatever....

KA-108

[soap108]

go here: http://www.soap108.com/2002/events/cmp/awards.cfm

Also the Animation awardees:

114 (Overall winner)
849 (Rising Star)
64 (Compelling Creativity)
166 (Content Communication)
45 (Technical Excellence)
111 (???)
610 (Honorable Mention)
488 (Honorable Mention)


Founders Award
Guy from KPCB

Chairman's Award
175 - Buzz


Later,
SOAP Team

Team 108 - SigmaC@T
Einstein SemiFinalists with 313 and 312.