Multiple submissions and Regional decisions.

[Miss157]

I think that there are teams who compete at Chairman's who aren't necessarily Chairman's worthy just yet, and I think that being able to compete at multiple districts/regionals will only serve to help. Getting more than one set of feedback I think will help a lot for the teams that are working their way up.

As for the multiple streams of judges, that may present somewhat of a problem of maybe catching presenters off guard. This is only our second year competing for Chairman's, and last year's presentation was very formal. So when the judge's this year asked us, both of us who had presented last year, to sit, we were very caught off guard.

I think the problem may lie in that every judge is different. Some judges adhere strictly to the five minutes presentation, five minutes of questions, but then there are some who ask questions the whole way through, or just adhere to the ten minute time limit.

It was most likely partially a fault of our own for being so caught off guard being as our second year presenting, but this may affect other teams in which it's their first or second year presenting too.