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Originally posted by Tytus Gerrish
But for First You need a Good 8k in parts and another 5k for a basic field and another 10k for an organized game
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Fortunatly, you have companies that will "donate" their services. For example, IRI had a company (I can't remember which off the top of my head) ship the field for free.... so the field wasn't much trouble. The $300 admission fee I'm sure helped pay for lots of the other necessities. On top of the admission fee, the snack bar was always filled with people coming to eat. I don't know how much that made, but I'm sure that helped cover it. Once you have the teams and robots built, the offseason competitions don't seem like they would cost too much to anybody, IF you have companies help out, and maybe even split the work between multiple teams to host the competition. For smaller competitions it might be harder, since once you have the field and the equipment to run the competition, it doesn't cost much to add more teams... its's just an issue of space and time to setup and cleanup. I think that offseason competitions could easily become very popular all over and if setup properly won't cost much to teams, so teams can attend multiple offseason events. That's just my 2 cents, please correct me if I'm wrong.