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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.
FIRST has enough money if they decided to pay the referees. If you look at the annual reports from previous years you can see that their "cash" account has increased by about a million dollars each year.