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Andy, its true for many teams, and if you look at our regional in CT you will see its on the 6th of april. The Nationals is on the 25th thats 19 days later.
In that amount of time including the sunday after the regional and the Wednesday that we arrive in Florida we would have to collect $30.000 or more from sponsors and book airline tickets, and reserve rooms in Disney. All the Adults who would be with the students would then have to upheave all the places where they work so they could get the time off to go.
I dont know your situation at work but many Adults and Parents who would normaly go to Florida with the team requier more than "19 DAYS" to make this happen. Last year we fund raised the whole year, we did Tag sales, Can and Bottle drives, Bulbs, calenders, Raffles and a whole lot more, but other than 1 main sponsor of $10.000 we had to raise every other dollar by nickles and dimes. I dont think we will find a sponsor in our town ( pop 23.000 ) thats going to give us $30.000 or more in 19 days.
FIRST is not being fair to the Adults and thats not an opinion, Thats a FACT.
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