[Rick TYler]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

Wouldn't you rather have saved a very low budget team just enough money because of those pins so they can enter another year as an FRC team, rather than complain about losing participation medals that the team who couldn't participate didn't even have a chance to earn? (If this is incoherent babble, I apologize, its 2am and I've been teaching FLL camps all week).

Billfred and I have both looked into comparative costs, and it's less than $2 per student. The "saving money" argument isn't compelling.