Awards and How they Are Chosen

[Karibou]

Originally Posted by Jeffy

For the record, I don't think Denver puts a "cap" on amount of awards you can win. I saw 2996 win 7 (6 maybe) in their rookie year (2009) at the Colorado Regional.

https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index....ils&tpid=64015

Four, if you include winning the regional.

From what I've seen (which is basically just MI events), it is rare for teams to get more than one award, with some exceptions. Safety is judged independently from the other awards (as is website, which is judged before the event by a different panel of judges), and it's not impossible for a team to win it as well as another award. Then, some awards are based solely upon robot performance: Coopertition, Highest Rookie Seed, Regional Winner, Regional Finalist. It seems like the judges don't count this "against" you when deciding award recipients, and IMO it wouldn't be fair to say something like "this team was the highest rookie seed, so we won't even consider them for Rookie Inspiration."