Something New – Chairman’s Award Eligibility

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Originally Posted by cadandcookies

To be honest, I haven't really seen that sort of exaggeration as a problem, at least at the regional level in my state.

I have. "Team XXXX has reached over [number that has exceeded a million] people throughout their blah blah" in the awards announcement has been true for several years in a couple of states.

We do demos at the Grape Festival in our home town, which draws 90K-125K per year, but we don't claim 90-125K people reached per year in our essay or presentation. But there are teams that will take the total attendance of a fair or festival or other activity and add it in, in the hopes of winning the RCA (and then the national CA)--and not doing so is, in my limited experience, the exception rather than the rule.

I'm not complaining; it is what it is, and part of advertising is spin...but I wouldn't encourage my team to do it.

All I'm saying is that yes, it absolutely happens, and is common.