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Originally Posted by EchoingJabez
Obviously it is already a tremendous advantage for many of the teams to have access to a tremendous amount of resources and expertise that my team will never dream of having because we aren't next door to a Ford Motor Company or something like that. I have accepted the fact that this is how it will be and that's fine. I do however think that those issues are compounded even more when teams travel the country competing in 3 or 4 regional event having extra time to drive, build, modify their robot simply because they have the funds and the resources to do so. If they are going to be able to do that then I should be able to keep my robot for all the extra weeks that they are traveling around working on theirs, it simply makes a lopsided competition even more lopsided and honestly quite disturbing.
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Be sure to take advantage of the withholding allowance. If your resources don't allow you to work on the entire robot at multiple events, at least you can optimize a critical subassembly.
Perhaps FIRST will expand the Michigan "district" model to your area in the future. It gives you have more access to your robot and lets you play a lot more matches for the same entry fees than the current regional structure.