Team 991 has actively pursued (thus far unsuccessfully) these companies and organizations and we will continue to do so unless there is an explicit rule saying that we cannot.

Although this has gotten off topic, I'd like to thank everyone who posted their opinions. Im overwhelmed by the fact that there wasn't a single negative comment towards the idea. This is great. I just hope we receive the same treatment at the competitions.

hmm...

I've built a battlebot as an individual and our team will be building one after this FIRST season is out...

I wonder if battlebots would be interested in sponsoring two teams? I never thought of asking them because

a)they don't even sponsor battlebots teams so why would they sponsor FIRST teams and
b)the FIRST organization and a lot of teams give out a lot of misleading, often unresearched information on battlebots and seems generally to despise it and want it wiped from the face of the earth, as far as I have seen. (This is my biggest gripe with FIRST)

I suppose they're sponsoring a first team to try to correct item number b and get more FIRST teams to do battlebots/IQ as well. Ya think?

Im not really sure. It came up during one of our meetings and our team coordinator which works for Battlebots said she'd ask Trey, and he said he was ok with it. Though im not sure the extent of the sponsorship due to how busy they are right now trying to get a TV network, etc.

-Dallin