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Re: The District System
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Originally Posted by Tom Line
The MSC was designed to be 100% free to teams. FIRST headquarters made the $5k fee mandatory.
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Teams who qualify for a championship should not face a prohibative financial burden. Would love to see FIRST compromise here, and maybe with our new president there will be some opportunity for renegotiations.
Currently the registration fee for Worlds is $5,000, and the fee for a second regional is $4,000. I could invision a compromise where we charge a $5,000 entry fee to the state championship, pass along a lesser amount to FIRST HQ, and use the difference to cover the World championship registration fee for those that qualify along with a $1000 travel stipend to the teams who didn't qualify so they can send some representatives to champs as spectators.
For example if 48 teams attend a state championship that advanced 12 slots to the world championship $60,000 would be needed (minus two $5,000 grants from NASA which covers the 2 EI winner.) to cover the championship registration fees. If $240,000 were collected in registration that would leave $190,000. Give $1,000 travel grant to spectate at champs to each of the 36 teams who didn't qualify and that would leave $149,000 to pass along to FIRST HQ, or roughly $3,200 per attending team.
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