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Originally Posted by mormannoob
i just think it isn't fair for a team to win regionals and just because they cant afford to go to nats their season ends if we want to consider our selfs a sport i would assume it should work that way
i mean the best teams in each region should all have a chance to prove they're the best teams in he world
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And they do. You have to raise the money first though. Part of FIRST is supposed to be your community involvement. If you've already raised enough money to attend one regional ($6000 + transportation + hotel + food), then you just have to do that again to attend championships. You've got a month, you've got a regional win to advertise yourself with, it is possible. 1281 did it last year after we came from nowhere to win the Waterloo regional. We went into it expecting NOTHING, and ended up winning. We parlayed that into more donations, and went.
I'm fairly sure that the championship portion of most sports are not paid for. I'm a swimmer, and if i qualify for national championships, I still have to pay the entry fee, pay for the flight, pay for my hotel. Only in the very upper echelons of sports can you expect to get paid to be somewhere. And even then, you're not getting paid by the organization that is holding the event, you're getting paid by your team. The NHL doesn't pay the players to attend the stanley cup, their teams do. Where do the teams get their money? From their community.
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It is my opinion that a team that wins regional or chairmans should not have to pay to attend, but must still pay for food, hotel, and traveling.
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With 30 regionals each sending 3 regional winners and 1 chairman's winner each, that is nearly half of the teams attending not paying their entry fee, which comes to about 3/4 of a million dollars in revenue less for FIRST to hold the event.
Edit: assuming my memory is correct that the entry fee is $6,000.