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Originally Posted by TimCraig
I personally think that money is the big dividing factor. However, within the money category, an interesting statisitic, abeit probably harder to gather, would be the source of the big money. How much comes from one "deep pockets" sponsor? How much additional support; ie machining, paid support, etc; does the sponsor supply? How do the NASA "house" teams fare compared to other teams?
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We have a ton of sponsors... no one sponsor other than John Deere gives us great amounts of money. Most of it is small donations here and there.
The "deep pocket" teams aren't always the ones that fare the best. Many teams with lots of money still don't have the engineering resources and such to build a well machined robot. Student commitment has a lot to do with it also. I hate to say it but I think you're wrong with the dividing factor being money. Experience is a precious commodity that I believe is the dividing factor.