[Pavan Dave]

I have been apart of FIRST for 3 years and I have seen the IFI guys jump over hurdles and through hoops of fire to help teams out so it is a shame that FIRST split, especially in the manner that IFI found out.... In other news, my source(s) tell me that something above was in the works.

I HOPE that whatever FIRST changes to, doesn't change the price of FIRST as many teams are already barely cutting the entry costs and a decent robot. The thing I like about IFI is $500 for the RC, $500 for OI and a few hundred for accessories will run smoothly. If we have another system, I hope it is around the same or cheaper because if it goes up even by $200-300 then we will see the peak of growth in FIRST sooner. At that, if the accessories like motor controllers and relays are more expensive we (the teams and the FIRST community) are at a bigger loss.