The dark hour is approaching!!!!
Seriously though, that is just the nature of this competition....like i said before there is no workshop on
maintaining a team....only one for starting a team.
We would be well over 1000 teams now if half of the fallen teams, remained. Unfortunately the emphasis is starting new teams (NASA Grants etc) and there is little to help a veteran team in trouble (ex. 147 - Deep Thunder). Until we have an emphasis on both starting and maintaining teams we are going to see the amount of teams dwindle in certain areas. Florida for example has been on a downward trend of net gain of teams for the last few years. Most likely similar things are happening elsewhere, but I'd have to research nationally to find that out for sure. I only know Florida for fact which is why I reference it.