Entry Fee Increase---hurting teams

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by Wetzel

So go find more money. If 2k isn't enough to build a robot, raise more. Consider this raising the bar on the business side of the competition. Yes it takes more work to go and get another $1000, but it can be done.


Wetzel

Consider for a moment that a team might already be working incredibly hard just to scrape together their current level of funding. Perhaps many teams, I'm not sure as there's disturbingly little in the way of statistics on FIRST teams. Yes, there are additional team grants. A total of 200 of them for teams in need. It is entirely possible that there are more teams in need of these grants than this. Just because your team has had to work fairly hard to raise enough money, don't assume that other teams aren't already working harder than that. And don't assume that rookie teams will be able to handle a 20% price increase for their very first year when they're still working on their basic organization and motivation already.