21-08-2015, 11:20
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 FRC #1519 (Mechanical MAYHEM) Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Merrimack, NH
Posts: 675
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Re: [FRC Blog] New Districts, Frank Answers Fridays, and More!
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Originally Posted by marshall
Nathan, just to clarify my concerns for the financial issues about districts are not about my team but about the 4-5 other NC teams that my team helps to support in various ways throughout the season. I'm very fortunate to have a well funded team. Other teams in my area are not so fortunate and struggle with sustainability... they often don't last more than 2 seasons.
Further, my concerns are less about the total cost, though that is really going to be an issue for some teams. They are more about the timing of needing to raise the funds for the DCMP events. It's going to be a struggle at the moment.
Suggesting that a highly competitive team decline attending an event is pretty funny though.
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Having a short window to find out about qualification to DCMP and CMP is very tough... it's hardest because it's the teams on the 'fringe' that have the hardest time knowing whether or not they'll go, and these teams are more likely to be less financially secure. One thing that helped in 2014 was NEFIRST assisting in organizing buses for travel to CMP... If the District organizers are conscious of this difficulty a lot can be done to ease it.
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