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Originally Posted by Chris is me
What student's robotics experience has money as no object, though? My FTC experience was very much limited by money; if my FTC budget of $800 would have just gotten me the KoP for Tetrix, and I couldn't machine anything as I was out of money, I would have a much worse experience. If money is irrelavent, you'd be able to afford FRC and the point would be moot really.
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The members of my team wanted to do FTC because of the limited team size, not because they didn't want to do the big robots. Sure, we didn't have the money to do FRC, but we also didn't look for it. Since the team was only going to have four members, they didn't want to compete with teams of unlimited size. And no, there's no FRC team within 50 miles of us that they could have joined, we'd've had to start our own. If the team can look for and find sponsors, then budget is not the overriding item.
BTW, based on the budgetary number in another thread, $800 would be substantially less than is needed for a VEX competition as well.
If you are limiting your ideas based on money, then you are limiting your ideas...