[Brian C]

It's definitely NOT about the money. Once you get money involved as a prize or goal you're going to see ALL of the Gracious Professionalism go out the door. You would also see teams no longer sharing information and helping each other.

This forum would become a shell of itself.

Unfortunately the $$$ aspect of a prize will change the attitude of many people. This would absolutely NOT be a good thing IMHO

IF you have to ask why then I'm afraid you might not be getting the point of what FIRST is.