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Bring back the awards!
Here is a thought I had when rummaging through past award winners and the sort. I really think that FIRST should bring back the awards for Best Offense, Best Defense, and Best Play of the Day. It seems to me that the direction of FIRST has been more focused on the design and "purpose" parts of the game. As everyone knows, strategy is also a huge portion of this game...both on the field, and off the field. It only makes sense to me that a teams use of successful strategy should be rewarded...not to mention great plays such as team 67's capping of another robot definately deserve recognition. These awards are fun, reguardless if FIRST feels that they dont focus on the "purpose" of what we are doing. I say...lets get them back!
Good Luck! Andy Grady |
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Re: Bring back the awards!
I think the problem they have is the judges don't hardly see matches and don't see all of them for sure. The ref and volunteers have enough to handle and not to mention more bias than a judge. I just don't see who they would have judge the award how they have it set-up. Who chose the winners in the past?
I agree with them being fun and would be nice to have but don't see exactly how FIRST would judge these. The other awards are all comparatively easy to judge. |
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These awards could be handed out by the referees. They see everymatch. They can see strategies and whatnot on the field. Yes they are busy but I think if could be a way for the refs to get even more involved and in a sense give them recognition for thier time. -Pat |
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Re: Bring back the awards!
yes. I agree I never have heard of these awards before but I think from hearing about them they would be a very important part of the awards. You can have the best robot ever made, but with no stradegy you will not win. The only reason I can think of that would make this hard to do would be the fact that the judges might have a hard time picking. Aren't all awards hard to pick. I think it is a great Idea to bring the awards back thanks for brining it up
edit: i was posting as ngreen made the post I think that a way to fix this might be that volunteers just rocomend a bunch of robots or matches and the judges watch matches including them or go talk to them about the stradegy. Most of the matches are video taped anyway. I wouldn't be THAT hard |
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but i do like the idea for these three awards ... |
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Re: Bring back the awards!
You could have the teams vote on Saturday a lunch. Let one vote per team. The scouts from teams should have a good idea of these teams. The judges already have more than enough to do.
You could make it a team award. Sometime people appreciate those more than FIRST awards. It could be team xxxx best offensive robot award and make a award to give them. Vote or choose within your team. The steam engine awards would be cool. Last edited by ngreen : 05-04-2004 at 11:53. |
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How about a team ballot? Each team has a piece of paper in their pits with the three awards, and by noon on saturday they have to turn it in.
You could make the awards for each division too, because no one can watch all the matches. |
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Re: Bring back the awards!
How about make it voted on by the field crew volunteers? They're watching matches all day, and this would create added incentive to be a volunteer.
Hehe, I think Andy just wants to be the person deciding this award ![]() |
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-Andy Grady |
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Well, you can have one vote per team, and one vote per volunteer crew, just as if they're a team of their own. I think a problem with having just the field volunteer crew make the decisions would be that a lot of times, a lot of the volunteer staff are pretty young kids, plus it's hard for them to see the whole match being down at ground level. I think they would be fun awards to give out. And if FIRST doesn't want to do it, maybe one motivated team can organize it, tally the votes, and present the award. |
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