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Originally Posted by Karthik
It's probably not a coincidence that the $256,000 program fee to FIRST is equal to 64*4000, which is the number of teams that compete at the PNW Championship times the event registration fee.
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Karthik is correct. This is not a coincidence: "We are have a new $256,000 fee that is due to USFIRST as our program fee. This new program fee is going to replace the registration fees for the PNW District Championship. The good news for all of our teams is that no additional fees are due when you make it to the District championship. That has become an expense item in the WFR budget and is now part of team participation fee. It adds $1,684 for each of our 152 existing teams. If we grow or shrink teams, the $256K is still a fixed expense that we will owe to USFIRST."
It seems that they are banking on the idea that this new system will be easier for the sponsors to understand so they will be more willing to give out more money (opposed to be being confused about the differences between sponsoring USFIRST, WFR, PNW, specific events...).