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Unfair for what purpose?
Posted by Dan, Student on team #10, BSM, from Benilde-St. Margaret's and Banner Engineering.

Posted on 3/16/99 3:22 PM MST


In Reply to: Re: Hopefully, this is my last post... posted by Chris on 3/16/99 11:55 AM MST:



I have to disagree. There should never be a spending cap on education. This is not just a competition, winning isn't the ultimate goal. Tons of things are unfair if you look at this solely as a competition, but if you look at FIRST as an experience the word "unfair" doesn't apply.
If someone wants to spend money on education why should we stop them? A more sensible thing would be to divert the multi-regional money to create more teams. :-Dan

"As Joe stated, the biggest 'unfairness' in the competition is funding. Perhaps some rules need to be in place to lessen this advantage. It occurs in virtually all sports: the NFL has the salary cap, Formula One has technology limitations, the NCAA limits football scholarships to 85 per team, etc. All of these rules are in the interest of fairness of the competition so that the 'small market teams' can compete on a level playing field with the 'big market teams' that have a funding advantage. There are already a few rules in place within FIRST toward this end, but I would maybe like to see more."
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