2012 Regional Chairman's Award

[Taylor]

Originally Posted by ebarker

I'm speculating that part of the verbage is to move things from "winning" to "earning" and it is theoretically possible that at a particular competition an award isn't given out because of insufficient effort by the team. I'm speculating that might be the how things might go for certain awards ?!?!?!?

I do not like the word "lucky" for much the same reason. Luck has little to no effect on outcomes; I would never say, as I've heard others say, "Team WXYZ was so lucky to have won the RCA." No, they were determined, prepared, focused, and reached their goals. Fortunate, perhaps. Lucky, no. They earned it. I think the wording change is appropriate.

There is a lot of discussion on CD about how to pursue the RCA. One of the intentions of the Chairman's Video was to initiate a process whereby other teams could see what a team did to earn the RCA. That video project didn't work out so well. Posting a RCA teams submission will effectively do the same as what the video intended. It gives everyone a much clearer understanding of what teams are doing and how judges are viewing things.

Does this mean the video aspect may be going away, or made voluntary, in the near future?