[Dave Flowerday]

Has anyone considered the possibility that this decision came from IFI? Perhaps they were not selling enough of these panels or for some other reason were no longer interested in producing them and told FIRST that they didn't intend to sell them this year. If this was the case, then FIRST may have chosen to disallow them simply because it wouldn't be fair to the new teams who would not be able to purchase this from IFI.

I have no information to suggest that this is what happened or anything, but I'm just pointing out that FIRST's hand could have been forced on this one.