FRC Blogged- District Award Allocations and Kickoff Taping

[Nathan Streeter]

Originally Posted by P.J.

The way I've always looked at it is that it is irrelevant to send more than one Woodie Flowers Finalist to the World Championship from the District Championship. Only one person can win the Championship Woodie Flowers award, so why send three or four from your district when you can just send the best one?

Given that every judging panel is different and who best embodies the Woodie Flowers award is a bit of a subjective thing, I see why it would be viewed as an advantage to send more than one person... I'm guessing it's anything but a clear-cut decision who the single best Woodie Flowers Candidate is at the DCMP level. If the DCMP panel prefers a heavier team-level commitment but the CMP panel weighs involvement throughout all of FIRST more heavily, there's an easy example of where sending two or three candidates would be helpful.

That said, I don't envy the job of the CMP judging panel for any of these awards... it's got to be exceptionally difficult to come down to a single winner! Having fewer candidates get to that level can't make it any harder to decide on the single best nomination.