Web Excellence Award Winners (Which Teams?)

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by dez250

Heres the regional website excellence award recievers.
http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/2004...te_winners.htm

I think there's a lot of confusion here. Let me copy and paste the following information from the Awards section of the 2004 Competition Manual. It should clear a lot of things up for all of you:

8.8 WEBSITE DESIGN AWARDS

The Website Design Award recognizes excellence in student-designed, built, and managed FIRST team websites. Eligible websites are judged/scored PRIOR to the competition by a panel of judges. Two subcategories of awards will be given for website design:

1) “Website Excellence”

2) “Best Website.”

Every submission that meets the FIRST website design standards of excellence will receive the Website Excellence award. Website Excellence award winners will receive an electronic certificate to include on their websites, and will be featured prominently on the FIRST website. At each Regional Competition, there will be one award for Best Website. The overall championship Best Website award winners will be chosen from among the regional winners.

8.8.1 Submission and Deadline Information

Only team websites that are entered into the FIRST team management information system via the FIRST website by noon (12:00 p.m.) on February 20, 2004 will be judged. Team websites are eligible for these awards at every regional event in which the team is competing. Only one electronic Website Excellence certificate will be awarded per team for the entire competition season. A team is eligible to win the Best Website award at multiple regional events.

Aside from the fact that they posted the Regional Best Website winners on the FIRST website instead of all the 75 Website Excellence winners (which makes perfect sense), I believe everything stated in the rules above is correct. As long as your website was registered with FIRST's TIMS system by the deadline, your team was automatically entered into consideration for both awards.