Everyone is entitled to thier opinion, but I have to remark that I have noticed that in this post most of the arguments for the extra fee are coming from the teams that can afford to stay in disney in the first place...... and while you may have a secure sponsor and a large enough budget, there are many teams out there that just cant afford 75 more dollar per person..... what happens to them? they eventually drop out.... didnt Dean say himself that the way to keep long term sponsors was to keep the costs down?

you see, the teams that dont stay inside the park would already be staying in the park if they could afford it because its much much closer.... trust me its no fun driving for 45 minutes to the competition at 7am...... the problem is we cant afford it and this 75$ per person fee is disneys way at getting back at us because we dont have the money to stay in thier park. I understand disney couldnt just throw the party or run the competition without financial benefits.... but out $4000 entrance fees should more than cover any costs for that. Besides the entire competition brings a surge of business to disney and they also have a monopoly over the very unreasonably priced concession stands

i would think that FIRST would want to spread its influence to poor intercity high schools and provide opportunities where there are so few...... but this fee is just one more thing working against that

in my opinion disney is not exercising the gracious professionalism that it is supposed to be promoting
i hope they rethink this one

Becky