you seem to be missing the point........ as impressed as everybody is with the competition, not everyone can afford $75 dollars a person or to stay on disney property....... and its not because we arents spending the money wisely, its because we dont have enough money
i mean it would be one thing if a team was complaining about the fee and showed up with a titanium robot........ but thats not the kind of team that this is affecting

and you are absolutely right this does limit the amount of students that can attend........ pretty much any team thats been struggling by without a sponsor wont be able to afford this....... and intercity schools where opportunities are few to begin with

you go tell those people they have the choice to go or not go when they cant even afford to replace a peice of plywood or make tshirts


i do understand that there are teams that bring massive amounts of members and disney is trying to make it fair by having them pay more since they brought more people....... but maybe the way to do this is instead to have the registration fee cover the driving team and 5 other support members so at least every team can compete without extra costs and have any additional team members pay