Does FIRST give out too many awards? (Opinion)

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Originally Posted by nobrakes8

I dont think FIRST gives out too many awards. I think FIRST relys on judges a little too much though. The judges are very fair people and should be in charge of giving out the majority of awards, but we don't have any awards for play on the field.

This year my team didn't really have anything special on the robot, website was average, we didn't put in for the chairman's award, so it was like we weren't really going to be judged well for anything.

If they had a best defensive robot, best play of the day, etc.. where maybe our peers voted from other teams or the refs could vote on would make the awards more well rounded.

I think every year theres a robot like my team's that just competes extremely well but has nothing special and unfortunatly walks away empty handed. I'd love to see FIRST leave it up to our peers and mentors on other teams to vote on the team they think should get the play of the day, just like in Beantown.

That would be what the regional champion and finalist awards are...

I would not want to see an award in which team members, or any non judges could vote for. It isn't a good way to get a non biased response.

Referees cannot be counted on to remember specific "plays" by an individual team after witnessing 100 matches.

It's not FIRST's fault you didn't submit for the other awards.