Multiple submissions and Regional decisions.

[Michael Hill]

Originally Posted by faust1706

Something that I don't quite understand is that if a team does not win the chairman's award at their first regional, then win it at their second regional, they should already know that they are not going to win it at internationals because they were beat at their first regional. It strikes me as odd that FIRST is allowing this to happen. Our team was taken completely by surprise by this at our second regional and almost had to have different people present because they had other obligations. What are other people's opinion's on this?

Just because a team doesn't win in a team's prior regional doesn't mean they won't win at Championships. There could be quite a few reasons a "better" team doesn't win the first time. Maybe something bad happened in the interview. Maybe they forgot to include something about their team. In fact, I'm willing to bet a team that wins Chairman's at their second regional is going to be the one to win at Championships. Teams that submit for Chairman's at a second regional is going to have more time with judges and more practice.