[tsaksa]

Let's at least try to look for a bright side in this otherwise bad news. We do have a serious budget problem in this country, and while painful, this could help to address it. This may not be what some of us would chose to do, but then again just about every program has proponents who argue it is essential. Perhaps having teams work to design complex systems with very few resources can be a great lesson in how to deal with real world problems. I believe that FIRST is certainly strong enough to weather a small setback like this.