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Unread 10-04-2014, 12:57
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Re: Role of Sponsors at Competition

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Originally Posted by DavisC View Post
The driver of that team then said "we have to put it in" so we asked, why? And he said ,"our sponsors are basically forcing us to load an autonomous ball".
I think there is more to this than the above quote.

I've been a sponsor and all that we ask is that our name appear on the robot and if there are other sponsor names to appear on the shirt. Some teams have structured costs like $x for shirt, $y for logo on robot, etc. some don't.

I used to ask for a shirt but with 2.3 million of them, I'm a little out of space.

In the beginning, I once showed up to ask what they were doing with the money, that's how I got sucked into being a mentor.

But I don't think as an outsider I would even make a suggestion.

Lets hear more of the story ....
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