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Originally Posted by RoboTigers1796
I agree you can save a lot of money staying by the airport and is an option for some teams. Then there are teams like ours who are just not allowed to. Trust me, going through all this trouble, We would if we were allowed to...
Isn't it kind of a cop out to say they have limited resources and they're just a business. Maybe they shouldn't have agreed to take on the task of managing such a large organizations lodging system if they couldn't handle it. Didn't seem to be such a problem every year prior when Steele managed it. Then again their fatal mistake from the beginning was allowing any team to reserve any amount of rooms since January (whether it was FIRSTs idea or Experients they're in it together.)
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I don't mean to provide evidence that its a "cop out". I was just suggesting that when you are a company aggregating hotel or airline data in this "modern" day of internet vetting, you are a business trying to make a profit out of the ether. Not an easy job, and there will be people who are unsatisfied with the process.
Supply and demand. Hope you don't qualify in week 7.
Fortunately, your team won the New York City competition last week, so you know that you're eligible.
Now the mentors have to find the time off from work, and you have to:
Find a decent airfare or commission a bus;
Raise additional funds from your generous sponsors;
Deal with a diminishing supply of accommodations with the increased scale of the CMP. oh my!
Not an easy task, but something the RoboTigers have pulled off 2 out of the last 3 years.
Maybe the GDC could use this as the basis for next years game.
And you thought a warehouse was boring.
