pic: FIRST FRC Participation

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Originally Posted by Karthik

I want to say that was the year of the $1000 increase in registration. It was either 2004 or 2005.

/edit: Yes, the registration fee was increased by $1000 for the 2005 season.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...on+2005 +fees

Wow, that's a really powerful experiment. Many people in the FRC community have been talking about decreasing the cost of participation, with registration being a big part of it. Usually you can only guess at these things, about how big of an impact the registration cost has, but this is a great demonstration. This chart shows exactly what happens when you raise the cost. Have to imagine it'd have an opposite effect the other way.