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Re: Lessons Learned - The Negative

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Originally Posted by sdcantrell56 View Post
I guess I am a little weary of expanding FIRST too rapidly. It is already increasingly difficult to raise money and find sponsors, and adding more and more teams per area will saturate the area and decrease the amount of funding per team.
On the other hand, reaching a "critical mass" of teams in an area can make it possible to adopt a FiM-style district system and decrease the amount of money necessary to run a team.
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