come to the NYC regional

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally posted by Moshingkow
FIRST should have ponyed up some dough for the best city in the world to have the best regional. We could have had the regionals at the Jacob Javitz center, which would have allowed probably about 70 or 80 teams if not more. Now that would have been cool.

TENKAI

ummm... FIRST isn't supposed to "pony up dough" for any regional. Seeing as how FIRST is a non-profit and doesn't make nearly enough from registration fees to cover a regional, all regionals are supposed to be funded by regional sponsors. So if NYC can't afford a good regional, it's cause the regional staff isn't working hard enough to get sponsors. If the regional directors there tried to spend more than they made, then FIRST would end up having to steal money from another regional, which makes my mom VERY unhappy....