Rookie All-Star Award in 2015

[Caleb Sykes]

Frank noted in his August 22 blog post that Rookie All-Star would not necessarily be awarded at every regional in 2015. I would like to start a discussion on the impacts of this decision.

Almost every regional that I have seen so far has given Rookie All-Star. Some general food for thought:
Is this a good change? Or should every event that has a rookie team in attendance be distributing a Rookie All-Star Award?
Which events have not given this award when they had the option to do so?
Are there any teams (in your opinion) that should have received this award but did not?
Are there any teams (again, in your opinion) that should not have received this award but did?
Are events more or less likely to give this award if they are in a district model, possibly because the award has a point value and not an auto-bid for championships?

Please keep the discussion on-track and civil. For example, the following is okay:
"I don't believe that team 56xx should have won Rookie All-Star at Y regional. Their team consisted of 5 students and 2 mentors who didn't seem interested at all in FRC. Additionally, their on-field performance left a lot to be desired. I would be surprised to see them return as a team next year, and I believe that their qualifying for championships only takes a spot away from a more deserving team."

However, the following is not okay*:
"Team 56xx SUCKED SO BAD at Y regional their's no way they shoud have one ANY award. they didn't make eliminashuns and I don't even want to look at their robot its so ugly and when my team was in rookie year, we were easily 10,000X more better then them. And we didn't get any award"

*Poor spelling and grammar added for emphasis