How are Awards won at Championships?

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Forgive us for not knowing, since we hardly have attended the championship events in the past.
Our team received 3 awards at VCU which we've never won in the past.
Does that mean our team has a chance at winning those awards at CMP against 40 other potential candidates from the other regionals since there are 41 regionals total? Do judges at CMP specifically only look at the winners from regionals for each specific category?
Our team was so naive in the past as to not try for these awards at regionals. When judges came around, we answered questions, but informally or even told them to come back as we were too busy competing in matches.

This year, we separated the students answering questions for judges with the actual drive team who were too busy competing, so that any time a judge came, we were prepared. We like our results.
Many of these awards are the ability to convey completely and concisely about our team's efforts as stated during the awards ceremony. Too bad we learned that after 8 years.