Awards given at off-season events

[Taylor]

For what it's worth, here are the awards given at last year's CAGE Match:
Friendliest Team
Gracious Professionalism
Best Robot Feature
Unusual Design
Safety
Best Pit
Team Spirit
Best Elevator Speech
Winner
Runner-Up

It should be noted the CAGE Match is geared toward accessibility for laypeople. It's designed to introduce people to FRC competitions, so it's a more laid-back atmosphere than most other events. The driveteams are usually made up of rookie members. Nowhere near as prestigious as other offseason events, but we like to think it's still fun.

[RoboMom]

Originally Posted by Taylor

For what it's worth, here are the awards given at last year's CAGE Match:

Best Elevator Speech


It should be noted the CAGE Match is geared toward accessibility for laypeople. It's designed to introduce people to FRC competitions, so it's a more laid-back atmosphere than most other events. The driveteams are usually made up of rookie members. Nowhere near as prestigious as other offseason events, but we like to think it's still fun.

I LOVE this one. I spend time each year training lots of Student Ambassadors in Elevator Speech 101. It is such a valuable skill for FIRST and for life experiences to come.

[Steve Kaneb]

BattleCry's Awards:

Campaign Medals - One per each team that arrives on scene
Medal of Honor - Judges' award to team that does the "most with the least"
Purple Heart - Judges' award to team that becomes most grievously injured through valiant campaign effort
Engineering Excellence - Judges' award for best overall robot design in terms of quality, creativity, and control
Noncombatant Service - Judges' award for most outstanding team spirit displayed during the finals by a team eliminated during the eighth- finals
General Staff - Judges' special recognition awards (3), criteria TBD
Awesome Offense - People's choice award to team with most scoring potential/performance
Dominating Defense - People's choice award to team with best score-neutralizing or score-denial potential/performance
Best BattleCry - Emcee's award for best spirit shown by a team during combat
Air Superiority - To the team that fields the top Payload Specialist in the Saturday contest
Top Gun - To the number one seed in qualifying
Runners-Up - To each team on the three-team alliance defeated in the final match
Victors - To each team on the three-team alliance that wins the tournament
BattleCry STAR - Special Team Appreciation & Recognition award, adult mentor award presented by team selected by STAR reviewers (see below)

BattleCry STAR
Student team members are encouraged to submit nominations for their outstanding adult mentor. These nominations are due by 30 April (electronic format preferred to stafford@wpi.edu, 500 words or less) and will be reviewed and judged by past STAR winners. Student members of the winning team will be notified by 4 May and offered the opportunity to publicly announce their champion during the awards ceremony.

Taken from http://www.wpi.edu/news/Events/BattleCry/updates.html.