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Re: Fund Raising Ideas

I have no idea if this would work at all:

My mind was wandering the other day, and I thought an arcade might be a good idea. Not with real arcade machines, but you could set up Halo tournaments, wii sports tournaments, driving game races, etc. It might be a week-long event in the gym at lunch or something like that. Charge $1 per match. Further, if your team has some avid or overconfident gamers, you can up the ante and say "if you beat the robotics team at a game, you win $2!". That will help drive people in if they think they can win.

Edit: I worked out some math, and it's pretty bad considering the amount of effort this would require.
Let's say you set up 4 school machines to play some networked game with a 5 minute turnaround time (4 minute match + 1 minute setup?), charging $2 per play per person. So every 5 minutes, you earn $8 from the 4 people, and thus $96 per hour. That's not terrible, I guess. Especially if you can get larger matches (16 players is $384/hr, but that would be hard to sustain).

On that note, a wii with 4 remotes could earn $96/hour if you assume a best-of-3 tennis match takes 5 minutes, which is usually doesn't.

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