Streamline Awards Ceremonies?

[Nemo]

What if the 6+ event finalists and champions were recognized on the field immediately after finals matches?

The unfortunate things about those awards are 1) everybody knows who those teams are already, so there is no sense of anticipation, and 2) it's six teams, so that's a lot of high five lines to wait through. This is the point in an awards ceremony when one might feel that things are starting to drag on a bit.

Tradition dictates that "this is how we've always done it," and I know that logistically it's nice to have the field setup a certain way for the high five line and have the judges out there and so on. I get that. But from the perspective of creating an awards ceremony that doesn't seem to drag on for an indeterminate time period, does this idea make some sense to anybody else?

Other idea that Big Al mentioned: give out a few awards between finals matches.