Judge Consistency Between Events

[angelah]

Originally Posted by philso

I do not think the tougher competition at Lone Star is a factor. One of the Guidelines for the Rookie All-Star Award is "This team has built a robot appropriate to the Game's challenges." The OP's team was ranked 20th at Bayou and 16th at Lone Star, a tougher event as stated by JeffB. They also made it to the Semi-Finals in both events. I think results show that they did a better job of building "a robot appropriate to the Game's challenges" than most that attended either event, including my team.

That is one of four requirements:
■ This team seems like a “Chairman’s Award team in the making.” (Community activities,
leadership, vision, spirit, etc.)
■ The team is a true partnership between school or organization and sponsors.
■ The team understands what FIRST is really trying to accomplish – realizes that technical stuff is
fun, challenging, and offers a future.
■ This team has built a robot appropriate to the game’s challenges.

What you are describing, to me, is the Highest Rookie Seed Award, which I assume they won if they were the highest ranked rookie. The Rookie All-Star, from my understanding (and the Awards section of the manual), is more of a rookie version of the Chairman's Award.

(I wasn't at the event, obviously; I just looked this up to find out whether Rookie All-Star was that different at a regional than at our district events.)