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Re: Why do team's fold?

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Originally Posted by Navid Shafa View Post
Yep, this seems to be the most common case I've heard of too. Looking over my notes from last year's PNW registration, we lost 10 teams (Bear in mind that this was after the first year of districts).

Of those 10, one merged with another school, another started a different STEM program in place of FRC, at least two confirmed that they were losing their coach/head mentor, several others stated that districts were difficult for them logistically. If I recall, none of the 10 who dropped for the 2015 season were due strictly to financial difficulties.
I known that down here in Oregon, going into 2016 we have two teams that are folding due to the financial burden that is placed on them (so I here). These were teams that had not made it to DCMP so I have a hunch (this part is speculation ) that the new registration prices made it so they could not participate.
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