Award winning year streaks

[Rich Kressly]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

I'd claim it's probably the least significant casualty. Who cares about trophies and awards and winning streaks? What of the students who missed out on a year of inspiration?

Sorry, I'll leave.

WELL SAID FOR SURE!!!!

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by ebarker

There is a different way to view trophies / awards.

We have two major viewpoints.

1) most obviously, they recognize the work that we do and we like to do these things, award or not.

2) the use of trophies / awards / recognitions, etc as weapons.

Consider the of the theory of Sun Tzu, The Art of War, applied to cultural change goals of FIRST. Awards creates energy (chapter V) and and builds substance (chapter VI).

The 1st award we ever won was a heady experience but not really put to good use for a while. The 2nd through the nth award has been loaded into a "cultural change artillery piece" and put into action. We have been able to create a loud echo of student impact ranging across the region.

Impact is great, collecting awards is okie dokie, but using awards to leverage cultural change and a lot more impact is even better.

Getting the award is only half the battle, what you do with it is really important.

IMHO

You took my comment out of context. Awards are great and they have a lot of uses for outreach (said as I just got back from one of said cultural outreach events in which we leveraged a few of our shinies to catch attention). What I was remarking on was the inference that 188's streak breaking was the biggest downside to them not competing this year not awards in general. To set the record straight, I like shiny awards!

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Basel A

Thanks for the data, Mark! Here's every active streak 10 years or longer:

Team #	Years
71	17
111	17
27	16
67	16
45	15
56	14
103	14
115	14
190	14
217	14
233	14
254	14
330	14
25	13
34	13
340	13
342	13
365	13
383	13
461	13
469	13
148	12
188	12
599	12
694	12
16	11
48	11
79	11
118	11
180	11
207	11
291	11
341	11
358	11
379	11
870	11
141	10
234	10
294	10
375	10
812	10
842	10
868	10
1038	10
1108	10
1114	10
1158	10

We have a 10 year streak that goes from 2001 to 2010.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

We have a 10 year streak that goes from 2001 to 2010.

Then it's not active is it?

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

Then it's not active is it?

oops. Sorry about that. I misread the top.

[Alexa Stott]

Other somewhat related threads of interest:

Most Regional Wins Ever
Most Chairman's Wins
Consecutive Wins

[Basel A]

Just for you, Ed, I spent a couple hours figuring out finding the lengths of inactive streaks. Here's the longest award-winning year streaks in FRC History:

Team #	Longest Streak
71	17
111	17
27	16
67	16
45	15
175	14
56	14
103	14
115	14
190	14
217	14
233	14
254	14
330	14
25	13
34	13
340	13
342	13
365	13
383	13
461	13
469	13
69	12
108	12
148	12
188	12
599	12
694	12
60	11
271	11
16	11
48	11
79	11
118	11
180	11
207	11
291	11
341	11
358	11
379	11
870	11
47	10
191	10
230	10
272	10
384	10
476	10
141	10
234	10
294	10
375	10
812	10
842	10
868	10
1038	10
1108	10
1114	10
1158	10

This is a list of the additions to the previous list, the longest inactive streaks in FRC History:

Team #	
175	14
69	12
108	12
60	11
271	11
47	10
191	10
230	10
272	10
384	10
476	10

[Damiaen_Florian]

Originally Posted by Mr. Lim

188 - 12 years.

The streak ends...

I actually was completely unaware of this happening... I'm always so saddened when a team that I follow happens to disappear from FIRST. Especially such a low number, the Canadian regionals just won't be the same without them.

[DjScribbles]

This year when it was announced that the Niles (MI) district event was being renamed and moved a bit north to St Joseph, I realized our team won the Niles event the only two times it was being held. Solidifying us as undefeated at Niles

[Racer26]

Originally Posted by Damiaen_Florian

I actually was completely unaware of this happening... I'm always so saddened when a team that I follow happens to disappear from FIRST. Especially such a low number, the Canadian regionals just won't be the same without them.

I have no doubt at all that 188 will still be present this year in the form of event volunteers, and I am also certain that 188 will return for the 2014 FRC season. It is still a shame that they had their 2013 season scrapped by political unrest where students clearly got the shortest end of the stick.

[bardd]

The Spikes' winning streak grew a year older yesterday, when we won Gracious Professionalism by Johnson & Johnson in the Israeli regional, for the 4th time, and for the third year in a row! (2009,2011,2012,2013)

We are happy that our streak is still alive, ever since the team was started back in 2007.

What is the longest GP win you know of?

[Eagleeyedan]

We haven't failed to win a safety award at least once a season yet

[dodar]

Are there any teams who have won every award that a team can win?

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by dodar

Are there any teams who have won every award that a team can win?

Team 111 has come the closest, when you consider all the awards that have ever existed. They've won 30 of the 79 different awards in 358's database

They have won:

#1 Seed
Autodesk Excellence in Design
Autodesk Inventor Award
Autodesk Visualization Award
Best Offensive Round
Best Play of the Day Award
Chairman's Award Winner
Championship Finalist
Championship Winner
Coopertition Award
Creativity
Delphi "Driving Tomorrow's Technology"
Division Champion
Division Finalist
Engineering Excellence
Entrepreneurship
FIRST Dean's List Finalist Award
Imagery
Industrial Design
Judges' Award
Leadership in Controls
Outstanding Defense
Quality
Regional Chairman's Award
Regional Finalist
Regional Winner
Rookie All-Star
Sportsmanship-GP
Woodie Flowers Award
Woodie Flowers Finalist Award

[dodar]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

Team 111 has come the closest, when you consider all the awards that have ever existed. They've won 30 of the 79 different awards in 358's database

They have won:

#1 Seed
Autodesk Excellence in Design
Autodesk Inventor Award
Autodesk Visualization Award
Best Offensive Round
Best Play of the Day Award
Chairman's Award Winner
Championship Finalist
Championship Winner
Coopertition Award
Creativity
Delphi "Driving Tomorrow's Technology"
Division Champion
Division Finalist
Engineering Excellence
Entrepreneurship
FIRST Dean's List Finalist Award
Imagery
Industrial Design
Judges' Award
Leadership in Controls
Outstanding Defense
Quality
Regional Chairman's Award
Regional Finalist
Regional Winner
Rookie All-Star
Sportsmanship-GP
Woodie Flowers Award
Woodie Flowers Finalist Award

Well I mean awards that are around today at regionals and champs.