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Re: Silicon Valley Regional 2008

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Originally Posted by math4origami View Post
In regards to paying referees, if we "do the math" like Marc Leone famously suggests, we get:
48 teams x $4000 (according to a previous post) = $192,000

I don't remember exactly, but if we had 10 referees, paid $1000 a weekend, (thats more than $300 a day and more than $30 an hour), then FIRST would be left with $182,000 for the Regional.
Not a dime of your registration fee goes towards the regional event--the event is responsible for raising enough money to cover the cost of the regional, without help from FIRST.
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