The 6 Week Build Season and 'Mentor Burnout'

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Originally Posted by nuggetsyl

Here is the real crime at MAR. First pays for nothing 0 zip nada. Its all covered by the reagional sponsers. Now I have no issue with paying for game design but its total crap that we have to pay for MAR champs another 4000 and first takes it all.

How is that any different than every regional your team (or any other team) has ever attended (assuming that said regionals were raising enough money that they were not being propped up by FIRST)? Not saying it's right of FIRST to be structured this way, but this is hardly a new outrage.