[David Kelly]

Originally posted by mnkysp6353
I can't believe the new qualification process for nationals this year. How is a team supposed to ask for money from a sponsor for national or raise the LARGE AMOUNT and not know whether they are going to go? My team is already having problems raising enough money for all other team things. If we are not guaranteed to go then why will anybody devote time and buy non refundable airplane tickets ahead of time? We will be attending the Socal regional and personally i see no way of planning a whole trip and raising close to 20,000 in 2 weeks. I think that it is unfair for teams that aren't on the A list or liked by these premiere robotics teams. If i am at all wrong in my analysis of the process please correct me.

it's possible but difficult. we raised the necessary money to go to nationals in about 2 weeks after we surpried ourselves of winning the MMR. some people were aready down in FL for spring break and some found rides down. i flew down with my dad and an engineer. we found some tickets at pretty cheap price. all of that was also possible because of an awesome sponsor, but we lost it due to township politics. never say never.