Chairman's Feedback Forms

[Kevin Kolodziej]

At CMP, we had our banner and our stack of (freshly printed) judges reports visible, plus our full pit display with information about everything, and still nothing. Everything would have been in place anyway, but its just one of the things on my list that I wish FIRST would communicate to teams - there seems to be no consistancy with judging from event to event, even from CMP to CMP (the last time we attended in 09 we had one judge stop by, put a sticker on our pit sign to say we've been visited, and that was the only judge we saw all weekend).

That said, since the CMP award was given on Friday this year at the concert, I fully expect that the judges made a "short list" and focused on those teams. However, if the Chairman's Award is the highest award, shouldn't all teams that are being judged for the award at least be visited and talked to and not completely ignored? Maybe we were disqualified because we have high involvement with Vex

At every regional we've submitted Chairman's at that I can remember, we've seen two sets of judges on Friday, one focused on the robot and one focused on the team, and then a third set of judges on Saturday morning ususually discussing a certain aspect of the robot and team stuff. Sometimes more. I don't think we've seen the Saturday judges at events we haven't submitted Chairman's at.

**When I say "chairman's judges" I mean judges that ask about involvment, schools, sustainability, etc...basically, anything non-robot.