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Re: Should teams be allowed to attend multiple regionals?
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Originally Posted by dlavery
Uunnnhhh, perhaps there is a different reason. Yes, the $3500 limit was initiated to help level the playing field at a reasonable level (i.e. ensure that well-backed teams could not buy an unlimited amount of machining and out-sourced services while other teams struggled to purchase minimal supplies). -dave
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What if FIRST tried to place a cap of, say $5000 of "value added" on INSOURCED machining provided by the teams' sponsoring organization? Boy, would that ever change things!!
More on-topic is this. I feel a team should be allowed to attend as many regionals as they want, but my 10 years in FIRST says that two is the right number. You need more than one to get the driver experience and robot debugging necessary to be competitive at the Championship, but attending three or four regionals takes kids out of too much school and most mentors away from work too much.
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