Hello,
The Innovate award states the following:
This design element, strategy, or other attribute is unique or uncommon among Innovate Award submissions at the event
Does the submission actually have to be present at the event to count against another submission being unique or uncommon?
For example, consider the following. Teams 123A and team 456B both submit the same feature for the innovate form in their digital notebook submission 1 week prior to the event. However, at some point in the week leading up to the event, team 456B removes the mechanism they submitted in their innovate form from their robot. (Maybe the mechanism broke, they determined it wasn't strategically viable ect.). Should 456B's submission count against the uniqueness of team 123's submission even if 123A is the only team who actually has said unique mechanism?