Does FIRST give out too many awards? (Opinion)

[richardp]

Originally Posted by santosh

The chairman's award is basd on what you do that year. It isn't cummulative.

The chairmans award is based upon the continuing of excellence meaning in order to show that then you have to bring up stuff from prior years. It is about more than just one years worth of work. It is for that very reason that rookies can submit but can't win it! So many more things wrong with that statement that I wont go into.....

As far as the awards go the judges award exists to give a team that deserves the award an award even though the categories don't fit. In my opinion if categories don't work make them by increasing the awards. I have never seen a team unhappy because they won an award. So many people put in a lot of hard work and unfortunately aren't always given credit for their work. I think that their are not too many awards.