You are mixing up two competitions. The prize for courageous achievement was won in the FIRST Robotics competition, in the US, last summer. This new prize is fo

You are mixing up two competitions. The prize for courageous achievement was won in the FIRST Robotics competition, in the US, last summer. This new prize is for a different robot, at the Robotex competition in Tallinn, Estonia. The division this time was "entrepreneurial challenge." The FIRST robot had to be out of specific parts; the Robotex robot has to satisfy different rules. At FIRST they got the crowd award (the "political" prize that commenters are alluding to).