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Originally Posted by rich2202
FWIW: I heard that it costs roughly $60,000 to put on a District Event at a high school vs. roughly $250,000 to put on a Regional event at an arena.
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District events (at least in MAR) are cheaper than that. According to
this document the budget for all six 2014 MAR districts was $135,000, or $22,500 per event.
MAR got $111,000 from FIRST that year, and raised the other $345,000 through sponsors. So only only 24.3% of MAR's budget is from registration fees. Interestingly enough, 24.3% of the average cost of a district event is only $5,500. So MAR runs an entire district event with less than the registration fee of one rookie.