Website Award Worth Nothing?

[Alex Dinsmoor]

Originally Posted by Craig Roys

Not sure how I feel one way or the other on the point values assigned, but the response does make sense. The point values don't end after you make States - those 64 teams are competing to qualify for the FIRST Championship based off of the points from their 2 District events plus points earned at the State Championship (at least the remaining spots after the championship is determined). Because of this it wouldn't be fair if a handful of teams were eligible to earn points at States that the rest of the teams were not.

Winning the Website award is a very cool thing and the teams that win it should be very proud whether or not points are awarded for it. Sometimes the intrinsic value of winning an award outweighs any extrinsic reward for it. Congratulations to those teams that won on a job well done.

Needless to say we are very grateful that we won it, but we were just hoping to receive something extra for winning it.

Although now that I see more responces I am begining to agree that it may be better not to give it points. The state championship is for those who exceed in some aspect of the game ( or certian other fields like GP or chairmans) and not for a fancy website.

[IKE]

Not saying I agree or disagree with this, but FiM has a seperate set of awards called Cultural Transformation awards:

http://www.firstinmichigan.org/stati...Michigan_Pilot

Rules->supplement

5.2.3 Competition for Culture Transforming Awards at the State Championship
Separate from the robot performance side of the competition, there will be an elevated competition for the awards
which seek to transform Michigan culture. These awards recognize a team’s effort to inspire others through
community outreach. The Culture Transforming Awards include the Chairman's Award, Engineering Inspiration Award,
Entrepreneurship Award, Rookie All-Star Award and the Rookie Inspiration Award. Unlike all of the other awards, only
the District Winners of these awards will be eligible to compete for the award at the State Championship. As these
awards are not related to robot performance, a team does not need to qualify for the robot portion of the competition to
compete at the competition for these awards, although many teams may have robots that do compete. There will be no
entry fee for teams who are not competing with their robot and are only attending the State Championship to compete
for the Culture Transforming Awards.
To help the general public, as well as other FRC and FLL teams, better understand the level of commitment required
to win the Chairman's Award, all District Chairman's Award winners along with the Hall of Fame teams, will have a
reserved space in the lobby at the competition to set up a display of all of their outreach activities. The Chairman's
Award judges are free to look at the displays.

To this regard, the Chairman's, website, and some other do not count as points. Some say this means they are worthless, some say this shows they are priceless. Please read the rules carefully, think about how you might like it, and make sure that your team leader addresses this in the end of season survey.