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Originally Posted by 1075guy

As far as I understood it, most current FRC events don't see any of the money from event registration. They have to pay for themselves via sponsorship.

I think its high time that FIRST started disclosing to us where the money goes. As I did the math earlier today, HQ pulled in nearly $15,000,000 from FRC alone for the 2011 season, never mind FTC and FLL. The only event FIRST HQ puts together for FLL is the World Festival (concurrent with FIRST Championship). FIRST HQ takes $225 to register each FLL team (there exists some 17,000 of them) and doesn't really have to do much for any but the ~100 teams that go to World Festival.

AFAIK, FIRST is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, and therefore has to be able to show the IRS that in a given tax year, they make less than some amount of money (I think, I know this is how NPOs work in Canada).

Also keep in mind that the T1 events will likely be cheaper than T2 events

$75K - 100K for T1
$150K - 250K for T2