Giving/Receiving Peer Awards

[AllenGregoryIV]

I like the idea of team awards but they aren't given out as much in Texas as I think they are in other places. I know several teams that have given them out in different years (including mine) but I'm not sure of anyone that has a big tradition of doing it every year, but I might just have missed it.

Whenever we did give out team awards I would always try to steer the team in to giving the awards to the teams that were probably not going home with any other hardware.

It makes sense to me that if you have dozens of blue banners hanging in your school, a team award isn't going to be as valuable or noteworthy to you as a team that has been doing FRC for 10+ years and never won award. Not to say teams shouldn't appreciate them because they should, but a team's reaction and acceptance is going to be based some what on what they have done at that event and in the past. It may even be that way within a team, maybe the seniors aren't impressed with the team award they won but the freshman who helped write part of the autonomous code could be overjoyed to win the "Best Autonomous" award from a team.