[FRC Blog] The Woodie Flowers Award and Two FRC Championships

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by Jay O'Donnell

While I agree with not liking only having one WFFA per district, maybe there's a good reason behind it. Perhaps they want to cut down on the number of submissions they have to read for WFA, since it builds on itself every year?

I don't like it either, but at Champs Woodie told us the insane number of essays they had to read through this year... It's a lot of work for the past WFA winners to get through all of that. Personally, I would prefer to see another tier added for district events instead - recognize one semi-finalist at each district event with a paper certificate, then the semifinalists are the ones that are up at the district championships, with one finalist picked from among them. It's a little more work for the WFA winners to read through those each week, but reduces the load during week 7. It would allow for a little more recognition without dramatically increasing the judging load.