[Madison]

Originally Posted by comphappy

I would not consider that to be a major concern, and based on how they bolded the word HEAVILY my guess is it wont run more then 1k, and how many of them do you need at once. I would figure one for the current robot and one for prototyping with the old one would be enough, the modules are easy to swap. I will reserve my final call to Fall/Early Winter when all this is finalized.

We usually have four or five robots running at any given time. Keeping that up with the new control system -- even if it's heavily discounted to $1000 -- represents a significant increase in cost to our team. We may gain more processing power, but it will significantly affect how teams are able to reach out to their community to generate interest in FIRST, or to help new teams get their feet wet in the preseason.

Registration fees were raised $1000 to cover costs associated with providing each team a new control system each season. If continuing to provide a new system to teams each is no longer possible, the registration fee should be reasonably lowered again.