Limit team $

[George1902]

Isn't coopertiton about working to reach higher than our peers rather than dragging them down?

In that light, we should be efforting to bring each team's budget *up* to $50k, not limit our brightest stars to that level.

[waialua359]

Being from Hawaii, I find this thread quite amusing.
Pretend you're us but you live where you do, and all FRC events are held in Hawaii, minus your home event. How much would that cost you?

FRC is an international world event, not a US mainland one only.

[SteveGarward]

This amuses me somewhat too. Being (originally) from Australia, consider teams outside the US - in Australia, Israel, Turkey... Limit the team $$$ and you limit this to a (mainland) North America competition.

I have some similar issues with the district model because of similar distance/cost issues, but that is for another thread somewhere.

Apart from that, I don't think you can reasonably limit the amount of money a team puts in to inspiration, for their own team or for the community beyond the team, if they are willing to work for it.