Courtesy during awards.

[Kevin Sevcik]

Question for the peanut gallery: Is it rude or inconsiderate for a member of a large team to insist on hugging, shaking hands, or talking with every single judge, delaying the awards ceremony for everyone? Related question is if it would be rude for a team to stand around for 5 min before walking for their award because they were waiting on an absent member. Basically, at what point do you think a team delaying the ceremony would start to be inconsiderate?

[BigJ]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

Question for the peanut gallery: Is it rude or inconsiderate for a member of a large team to insist on hugging, shaking hands, or talking with every single judge, delaying the awards ceremony for everyone?

I've never seen this happen (except for WFFA, but at the events I normallly frequent, WI, IL, and MN, the WFFA is awarded and congratulated by all other WFFA winners in attendance), but I could understand it for the last award of the night (WFFA or Chairman's).

Related question is if it would be rude for a team to stand around for 5 min before walking for their award because they were waiting on an absent member. Basically, at what point do you think a team delaying the ceremony would start to be inconsiderate?

I've never seen a team not stream onto the field, maybe with a couple stragglers. I think waiting around unless you're around 5 or less people who were somehow much closer would be rude.

[Tristan Lall]

Originally Posted by BigJ

I've never seen this happen (except for WFFA, but at the events I normallly frequent, WI, IL, and MN, the WFFA is awarded and congratulated by all other WFFA winners in attendance), but I could understand it for the last award of the night (WFFA or Chairman's). I've never seen a team not stream onto the field, maybe with a couple stragglers. I think waiting around unless you're around 5 or less people who were somehow much closer would be rude.

I've seen both, several times at regionals. (I'd say it's mildly inconsiderate, but nothing to be too concerned about.)

It's historically been more complicated at the Championship, because the field can be so difficult to access from the stands. At some point (by 2004 for sure), FIRST started asking teams to designate a few members to accept awards. (I don't know what procedure was used in St. Louis last year.)