From Bill's Blog: Merits of replacing bronze participation medals

[Mr. Pockets]

Granted this has been my first season (hah hah pun ^_-), but I have mixed feelings. I have a feeling that especially to the rookie teams a medal would appear to be a far greater award than another pin (which quite frankly you have hundreds of by the end of the competition). On the other hand the more medals you get the less interesting they would become. Personally I would stick with the medals as I (and I may be very alone in this) get so many pins that an extra one would probably just end up swept in with the rest and end up in some bag or box while I try to find a better place to put them. At least for now I have so few medals that that isn't likely.

Originally Posted by AndyB

I also like the idea of displaying your pins at FIRST events.

Maybe I'm alone in this aspect too (or I just need to go to a few more competitions), but I never really pay attention to the pins everyone else is wearing. Typically the people wearing pins tend to be wearing so many that it would take you until next kick-off to identify them all or the people are wearing so few that you wouldn't even notice.