FRC Blogged-2013 Championship Pros & Cons

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Cory

By "previous years" I'm sure you mean 2012 and 2011, as it was quite large prior to that.

I'm talking about since we've been to St. Louis.

[Nick Lawrence]

Frank for Emperor. Someone should make a poster.

-Nick

[EricLeifermann]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

If you want to get a good idea of how little respect the Chairman's award is treated by FIRST you should've checked out what passed for the Hall of Fame. It was actually better than previous years but hardly adequate.

I strongly commented on this in the championship survey sent out to teams.

[Tom Line]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

If you want to get a good idea of how little respect the Chairman's award is treated by FIRST you should've checked out what passed for the Hall of Fame. It was actually better than previous years but hardly adequate.

This was one of the comments I put into the mentor surveys.

The hall of fame needs to be along the side of the hallway going into the main entrance of the pits, or JUST inside the door so that every single visitor walks by those displays. This is the highlight of FIRST, the best, and the most celebrated. Treat them like it.

[MamaSpoldi]

Originally Posted by Navid Shafa

I know it's already been brought up, but I feel that the manner in which the awards were presented wasn't as exciting as in the past. It is really a shame that they didn't make a bigger deal about Chairman's and I was bummed we didn't get to see their video at the event*.

Overall, Frank's highlights are spot on and the Championship event was a lot of fun!

*1538, HOLY COW's Chairman Video

I too was amazed at the off-hand way that Chairman's was announced. It was almost incidental. Whereas the repeated introduction of the chairman of Coca-Cola was filled with pomp and circumstance each and every time he was introduced. There was more time given to each of the sponsors during the matches on Einstein than was given to the Championship Chairman's Award team. Not even playing their video was beyond my ability to comprehend... and then to waste the time between matches on Einstein with dancing and music instead of inserting those more appropriate recognitions there was something that just made no sense.

I recognize that we want to recognize our sponsors for all that they do for us, but I thought the event was about recognition of the accomplishments of our students... not about the sponsors. The regional events that I have attended do a great job of exalting the sponsors and the teams. It was unfortunate that the championship event fell flat on that point.

[Jon Stratis]

I had the same issue with the Dean's List presentation as everyone has with Chairman's (which I also agree with). There was over an hour of people getting up and speaking, a huge presentation about the Coke thing... Followed by maybe 30 seconds for each award winner - all we knew about the award winners walking out was their name. They really needed to make it more about the students and less about the sponsors.

[MamaSpoldi]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

I had the same issue with the Dean's List presentation as everyone has with Chairman's (which I also agree with). There was over an hour of people getting up and speaking, a huge presentation about the Coke thing... Followed by maybe 30 seconds for each award winner - all we knew about the award winners walking out was their name. They really needed to make it more about the students and less about the sponsors.

Yes, we too had the same observation there as well. In fact by the time they got around to the naming of the winners it was pretty much after the entire ceremony was supposed to be over so everyone had to rush back to the stadium.