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Originally Posted by PayneTrain

Maybe rookie registration is low this year because we're running out of schools to bomb with a few thousand dollars and then leave alone until they either survive or crumble?

You know what's hard? Starting a rookie FRC team.
You know what's harder? Keeping an FRC team alive for 4 years.
You know what's seemingly impossible? Trying to restart an FRC team somewhere where it failed but should not have, years after it folded.

We don't only see the effects of this on team sustainability, too. A lot of the "box-with-wheels" problem that people complain about at competition, I believe, is precisely because we have a lot of teams starting up with absolutely no idea of what they're getting into. It's something I really wish FIRST would address.