How do you feel about how the Autodesk award winners were decided?

[Evenstar_342]

Originally Posted by BMartin 234

What if, on Autodesk FIRSTbase, the main contact of each team designated one student to score the Autodesk Inventor award? This student could score each of the top five entries like Autodesk scores them. The downside here, though, is that you still have the chance that the student picks the entry with the most outstanding graphics.

In addition, we could include the opinion of Autodesk as well. Autodesk could take their score and add it to the average scores of all the teams. The team with the highest combined score would be declared the winner.

In this way, Autodesk gets 50% of the input on the winner, and FIRST Robotics students get the other 50%.

Anyway, it's just an idea.

BMartin,

That's a really cool idea! I would think that the Autodesk portion of the award score would outweigh the guy who picks the entry with the "outstanding graphics". Out of curiosty, since we seem to have an Autodesk person watching this thread, can anyone explain why the award judging was changed? It just caught everyone on my team, at least, by total surprise and there are so many rumors and theories floating around, I'm sure Autodesk would like to get the official version out there.