[Rick TYler]

Originally Posted by TechieSam

This morning I called one of the planning committee members here that works with the FLL and FTC events in the Bay Area. They confirmed that Lego and FIRST did make such an agreement a couple years ago. I asked who confirmed it to them, and they said a FIRST rep named Steve Chism. They said they asked why the Vex fees couldn't be cheaper, at least for extra teams from the same school, and they were told becuase of a deal with Lego preventing any FVC fees to be the same or lower than Lego fees. So back to the point of the thread, I will state my opinion - I think that is horrible and I think FIRST is selling out their own teams if there is any truth to that. Sorry if some don't want to hear that opinion, but it's mine. If I should stop posting on Delphi because I question FIRST, let me know and I will.

Thank you. This is the sort of information I asked for originally. Now I am trying to figure out how FIRST is selling out its teams. Do you mean to say that because FTC has a higher registration fee than FLL, and that this was part of an agreement with LEGO, that this is a sell out? The FTC fee is $275 per team, and FLL is $200 per team. So, it is true that FTC costs $75 more to register than FLL. Is this the core of the claim that FIRST has sold us out?