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Re: FIRST Competition Entry Fee Increases for 2005

Students from our school were hesitating to pay the $20 CDN entry fee to join our robotics team. Even further, from what I have heard, sponsors have left vetran teams to sponsor regionals and rookie teams.

For regionals that can't support itself, it would have to depend on how many teams attend that regional. If that regional is at or near full capacity, and yet it is not sustainable, it should NOT be cancelled. But if the regional is at or less than half capacity and have shown little interest in teams for two concecutive years, it should be cancelled and hopefully be moved to a different location with more interested teams.

There's one question, should there be a cap of how much money one team can recieve from their sponsors? And if sponsors are willing to give more money, should the money over the cap be given to FIRST and be evenly spread across to regionals and/or other FIRST expenses?

[Addition] The reason for FIRST is to inspire students from all over to Science, Technology, Engineering, etc. And with this, FIRST is not like the real world where the most important thing is to make and not loose money. This is why regionals should not be cancelled because FIRST is loosing money over the lack of sponsors the regional can find. Regionals do help in the proccess to inspire students. [/Addition]

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