So what did you guys think of the food at your regional?

[Petey]

Originally posted by Koko Ed
That is just plain evil!
We are a well funded team and I bet the Technokats are well funded as well but there are plenty of teams in FIRST who are struggling to make ends meet and these venues are being allowed to maul them for their nasty overpriced food is just plain wrong!

Hear hear.
I understand the position of everyone on this but many teams are cash strapped enough as it is. I was talking to the only vermont team--team 885--and they were telling me how they only spent a few hundred bucks on their robot, how no big companies would sponsor them, about how the head of the team was a weaver and how they made their own costumes themselves, about how they made their robot in 10 days because no one would let them use their machine shop unless a team mentor was working at the machine shop itself and the team didn't have any engineer mentors. Their robot broke and there was one piece that would have fixed it, but it cost 100 bucks and they couldn't afford it. Luckily, our team had a spare one and gave it to them, but there are tons of stories like this and while it may be over-dramatizing the issue, the bottom line is that the service as manchvegas was terrible. Overpriced, huge lines because they wouldn't open up the other eating place right down the hall, and they closed it so much that people who didn't rush out right away couldn't get anything to eat and drink.

--Petey