Qualifying for CMP in the future

[Racer26]

Originally Posted by JesseK

Art's plan runs 2 major risks:
1.) 2 T1 + 1 T2 requires more time from mentors, students, and the like. Mentors have families, students have school work they already are behind on.
2.) The Tier 2 events, if mostly qualified for (thus paid for with reduced registration fees), will not have the same amount of revenue available to pay for the venue + whatever other costs FIRST imposes.

Anyone willing to run the money numbers to figure out a break even cost? (i.e. how many teams have to choose T1 vs T2 for FIRST to maintain its current standard of Regional Events)

As far as I understood it, most current FRC events don't see any of the money from event registration. They have to pay for themselves via sponsorship.

I think its high time that FIRST started disclosing to us where the money goes. As I did the math earlier today, HQ pulled in nearly $15,000,000 from FRC alone for the 2011 season, never mind FTC and FLL. The only event FIRST HQ puts together for FLL is the World Festival (concurrent with FIRST Championship). FIRST HQ takes $225 to register each FLL team (there exists some 17,000 of them) and doesn't really have to do much for any but the ~100 teams that go to World Festival.

AFAIK, FIRST is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, and therefore has to be able to show the IRS that in a given tax year, they make less than some amount of money (I think, I know this is how NPOs work in Canada).