Something New – Chairman’s Award Eligibility

[George C]

Originally Posted by MechEng83

To pick up on something mentioned earlier, one thing that has always seemed odd to me is that even though Chairman's is the most prestigious award, it comes with a nice blue banner and a bid to the Championship while Engineering Inspiration lacks a blue banner, but comes with a $5000 prize to pay for the automatic bid to the Championship. The market value of a blue banner is $200 (plus shipping). It seems like an odd juxtaposition of prestige and funding.

Which isn't really fair or GP of FIRST as it only applies to EI winners at events in the US. EI Winners at events in Canada, Israel and now Mexico aren't eligible. Non-US teams who win EI at events in the US apparently are. FIRST needs to step up and address that.