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Originally Posted by falconmaster
Just thought I would post this and see what happens. The economic crisis that has hit the U.S., seems to me, would affect many teams out there.As for our team, we have lost all our major corporate sponsors and we are driving a hard fund raising campaign like never before...
I knew the day would come that we would be hurting for money again, but I didn't think it would happen to us now. Oh well. We will keep looking for new money. I would like to hear from others out there. Is anyone else out there also suffering more this year?
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Fredi - Thank you so much for posting!
I think this is something that all the teams should take note of, Falcon Robotics is not a new team or a team that would ever be considered at being at risk of losing sponsors and having to really work for funding. As a whole, we always assume that Championship Chairman's Teams somehow have it easy when it comes to year to year survival!
So this may be a wake up call to all of the teams, especially in the current economic state, the teams that we think of as the best and strongest do not necessarily have it any easier in getting the money to compete, they earn it the same way, one sponsor at a time and one fund raiser at a time! FIRST - its not just a Robot Competition - teams need to learn and put in place valuable business skills to survive!
Good luck to all in meeting your sponsorship goals for this year!