What percentage of FRC teams should attend championships?

[DaRealSlimShady]

Originally Posted by Sunshine

Who says it would have to cost $20k? Ridiculous comment.

So I assume that you want FIRST to pay for teams' travel and hotel costs? In addition to the multitude of other expenses involved other than registration.

Because when your feet actually touch the ground again 20 thousand dollars isn't that much for a large group of people to attend championships, and I cringe at the amount much larger teams have to pay to make the same trip.

Regardless. I think the issue of money speaks for itself. Why worry about the amount of students exposed to championship when there are already many teams who have a hard time affording it even when they qualify now? If I were on a team that qualified this year and our budget was already wiped out from the first 6 weeks of competition I would be hard pressed to go to st Louis unless our robot was top notch. Now we're talking about adding even more teams that haven't earned a spot and got in on a waitlist. It's unthinkable.

I'm not trying to come off as a jerk, but somewhere down the line, we're going to have to face the facts, and start living in the real world. If your team has plenty of money to waste on a trip (yeah in one respect I mean waste) then go for it. Championships IS about inspiration after all not those silly robots.