[Kevin Sevcik]

I'm fairly certain it's possible to both be grateful to NASA for the grants while still offering positive criticism. I haven't noticed that much complaining going on, really. To say that we cannot question what NASA does with its money because they're giving us that money seems a very odd statement to me.

I think the point of the critical people in this thread is to question the methodology of the NASA grants. If NASA truly does allocate a set amount of money to each regional, then it can obviously result in some odd grant awards like it has this year. It could also conceivably result in allocated money not being given to any teams at all if enough teams at a regional don't qualify. This could leave other teams at other regionals hanging even though there was money left over. I believe that's the point being made here.