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Originally posted by dk5sm5luigi
I highly doubt that UTC would sponsor a regional in Mass. I know WPI was talking about trying to host a regional but last I heard the reason they weren't was because it cost too much more than BattleCry.
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Would it really be that much more expensive? I know that additional costs are involved in renting out the arena for the weekend, but the quarter-million dollars in registration fees that FIRST would collect for a regional with 60 teams should help defray that cost. Plus, when WPI allocates $25,000 to running BattleCry, they are doing that as an outreach effort to get the WPI name in front of the type of students that they would most like to have at the school. If they could expand from reaching 35 teams to reaching 65 teams, they may be more willing. The real problem, as Dean said, is that "trying to get through to a university administration is like trying to nail Jello to a tree." (BTW, I have two packs of strawberry Jello in my room if anyone wants to try a little experiment...)