Judges in Pits at Championships?

[AmyPrib]

Originally Posted by BandChick

As far as I know, Alexa is right. You are basically re-judged for the awards you've won at other Regional Events.

I, personally, don't agree with this. While, sure, some awards are best judged this way (you're not likely to change your control board or the sleek design feature of your machine), lots of other things change. Take for example, the J&J Sportsmanship Award. Who's to say a team that DIDNT win it at a Regional hasn't stepped up for the Championship? And who's to say that a Rookie team that DIDNT win an award shouldn't be eligible for one at the Championship?

I do not believe you are correct in saying that only the teams who won Regional awards get "re-judged". The judges collectively are supposed to look at all teams as candidates, though they have an extremely short amount of time to visit teams. All judges do not see all teams.

If they were going to judge based only on winning regional awards, then this should be written in the game manual by FIRST as to who is eligible for awards. But at this time, I do not believe that's how it's intended to work.

Out of curiousity, has anyone done a cross-reference to see if all champ award winners were also regional winners for that award? (obviously Chairmans is). I'd venture to guess they aren't.