pic: 2009 FRC Medals - New Design!

[A_Reed]

Originally Posted by Tt321b

Can someone explain why a team is given two exactly the same trophies when they win one? Wouldn't just giving a team one trophy cut costs by half?

Typically one trophy is given to a team to keep the other is to give to their major sponsor and more can be ordered at the expense of the team after the event.

[Jared Russell]

Originally Posted by A_Reed

Typically one trophy is given to a team to keep the other is to give to their major sponsor and more can be ordered at the expense of the team after the event.

...which strikes me as the first place that FIRST should have looked if they truly wanted to save money. I'll take one awesome trophy over two smaller ones. And if my primary sponsor thinks it's so important that they get a trophy as well, then they can probably afford to buy an extra from FIRST.

[Ryan Dognaux]

Any reason behind not having the sponsor banners at each regional? Buckeye was missing these banners as well and only had the FIRST logo in their places.

Keep the big awards for the Chairman's Award. Having that big trophy is just the coolest thing and the teams who receive the Chairman's Award have earned it.

[Libby K]

Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux

Any reason behind not having the sponsor banners at each regional? Buckeye was missing these banners as well and only had the FIRST logo in their places.

Keep the big awards for the Chairman's Award. Having that big trophy is just the coolest thing and the teams who receive the Chairman's Award have earned it.

I get the feeling it's expensive to reprint them every year as the sponsors change.

[waialua359]

I wanted to reiterate that this post doesnt imply that all we care about are medals/trophys, its just the thread topic for discussion as the trophies are smaller than in previous years.
After being in FIRST since 1999, its sort of like tradition, and I guess, sometimes its hard to see changes to something less, DUE to the economy.

Just for the record, I hardly think anyone does it most importantly for trophies. That aint worth it for the time, sweat and tears it takes to run such a program. I (speaking for our team) do it because #1 its FUN!!!!!!!

[Cory]

Originally Posted by Libby K

I get the feeling it's expensive to reprint them every year as the sponsors change.

Didn't the regionals last year have two LCD panels flanking the main screen with sponsors appearing on them?

[R.C.]

Originally Posted by Cory

Didn't the regionals last year have two LCD panels flanking the main screen with sponsors appearing on them?

At San Diego they did, but only one at Davis for some reason