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Originally Posted by Hinkel Y.
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?
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I'm going to take this idea and tweak it.
Suppose we ("we" being defined as either FIRST or the FIRST community) started the "pot." If a team has more money than they conceivably need (I'll even spot them building a nice cart with spinners on the wheels), then they can chip money into the pot on their own free will with no pressure. (I'm against guilt-tripping teams into chipping, since it is THEIR money, which they worked to get.)
So then if team 3.1415926 hits a really hard crunch (sponsor pulls out, head fundraiser gets sidelined, etc.), they then can apply for help from the pot, enough to get entered into the season, plus perhaps a few dollars to help build.
I guess the preference would be to have this as a boost (say $2000-3000), not as a full-on payment to get teams into the competition for a regional and such. I don't know how it'd work exactly, but if you know more about this, then feel free to run with it.