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Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/FRC Pilot Rookie Competition

The SBPLI event is $200,000 (total cost) in the college arena we use, and the funding is all raised locally. One of the big concerns is that if the regional grows, then the full size arena we'd have to transition to is much more expensive to rent and, hence, riskier to find sustainable funding for. If our funds run short, frills--such as A/V--get cut.

I believe FIRST does provide financial support to regionals that fall short in their independent fundraising. Back in 2000 when our regional began, one of the home office's big concerns, when a new regional started up, was that it become independently sustainable.
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