Only tangentially related to this thread, but I've been eyeing the chinese line of 3040 (and larger) routers for a while.
Their quality is all over the place, but some vendors like
www.omiocnc.com put together some very nice packages (with HG20 rails versus round rails) at a price that's very affordable for FRC teams.
I've been tempted to buy one for myself and/or 973, but we already have too many machines.
For a team w/o a router and a limited budget, their performance blows away shapeko or X-carves for sure. Not even comparable. You're able to cut aluminum with these at a rate that is fast enough for FRC production (our router was limping this season, and was barely able to cut faster than these machines can and we still made a boatload of parts).